"The most important thing your judge must do is make a decision."

Roger von Oech, author of A Kick in the Seat of the Pants

This is the hardest part for me.  Making a decision.   In January of 1970 I wrote in my journal ... "Tension and anxiety come not with a wrong decision ... (for that can be corrected), but with indecision."  I have always had trouble with making decisions.  I put them off.  I finally had to set a time limit to making a decision to actually file for divorce.  It took three years.  I kept vacillating.  I tried to honestly weigh all the arguments. Big decisions like divorce demand a careful evaluation and should not be rushed.  But eventually a decision has to be made.  In my day-to-day regular life, the hardest choices are usually choices between two things I want to do.   It's those thousands of little decisions that sometimes trip me up.  I read an article not long ago about the fact that we have too many choices and that creates stress ... lots of stress.  I usually tend to err on the side of being too optimistic.  I know what I want to happen, and I often just sort of cover up pointers that contradict that.  Decision-makers (our judge part) need to be bold enough to look at the options, to weigh the alternatives, to look realistically at the potential outcomes and then MAKE THE BEST DECISION WE CAN AT THE TIME.  And we need to set a time limit.  If the process is too long, we lose our momentum.  Even if we don't have every single fact, or every single detail, a well-thought-out decision is better than a decision that never gets made.  Plus, we can always make adjustments along the way or we can turn around completely if we need to.  But today, lets evaluate the decision we have been putting off, and then just make the best decision we can and start moving forward.  Until we do, whatever we are trying to create will never happen.

A simple man believes anything, but a prudent man gives thought to his steps."  Proverbs 14:15