Favorite Inspirational Quotes

Most people think that making decisions is hard, especially financial decisions, so they end up burying their heads in the sand, hoping someone else will make their decisions for them.  The thing to realize is that by not making decisions, we are really making decisions anyway.  We are really deciding that we will continue to do what we have done up until now.

Clayton J. Moore

Making decisions is hard.  Many people won’t make decisions unless forced to it.  If you make a decision, especially for a group of people, they’ll just tell you what is wrong with that decision but won’t make a decision themselves.

I have that problem with my family.  At times it’s so bad, I have to simply get them all together and tell them to figure things out and decide what to do as I walk away.  Used to be I did make all the decisions (the vast majority) for the family even though I would ask for input.  No one else would do it.  Someone had to.

Now they are adults and they feel free telling me what’s wrong rather than working with me to come to a decision.  That’s when I started doing the above of bringing them together and getting them to make a decision.  Why is that necessary?  Why don’t they just do it?

I knew a woman who would not even make a decision about what she wanted to happen in her life.  She would not choose a path or a desire and try to make it happen.  She just wanted to sail about wherever the winds and currents took her.

Sometimes I wonder if people as a whole don’t make decisions simply because they are not taught to do so and not allowed to do so in so many areas.  Think about it.

Your parents make the decisions while you’re growing up.  In school, teachers and the school board make the decisions.  Sometimes even what you decide to major in in college is heavily influenced by the people around you.

Once you graduate and start working, the company makes all the decisions which you have to abide by in order not to lose your job.  The politicians at all levels make the decisions about the laws you will abide by many times totally disregarding what the citizens tell them.  (I’m seeing this on a state level right now.  Never has there been such a turn out against some pending legislation but the politicians are ignoring it to do what they want.)  Society is full of decisions and rules made by others you must obey.

I guess someone else is making most of the decisions and we are used to it.  We just get in a rut and don’t realize we have to take control and make a decision for change if we want our lives to be different.  Maybe we can do little about many of those decisions that other make for us, but where we can decide, we need to decide what is best for us.

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