Decide to Decide

I love going to dinner with my family, but the ordering process can be tedious! Especially when it comes to my sister's turn. After being in the restaurant for what sometimes feels likes forever, when the waiter comes to take the order, she still doesn't know what she wants! When in my head, I'm thinking - make a decision. The funny thing is, I go through the same thing. I struggle to make a decision, because what if I make the wrong one? What if I order something I don't like? What if I order something that's not enough?

 

There's a story that I love about four lepers. They were living in a war torn country with fighting surrounding them on all sides. They found themselves in a place where they were unsure of what to do and where to go. Finally, one of them spoke up and said, "Why sit we here until we die? If we say, we will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die." What they needed to do was make a decision. The decision was made to walk into the city, and when they entered the city, they discovered that all of the soldiers had fled their camp and left their horses, tents and other treasures. They made a decision.

Some of us have decisions to make in life, but are never proactive in making them. We wait for a sign, or wait for someone to make the decision for us. Don't get me wrong, good counsel is, well, good! But when we procrastinate in making important decisions, we find ourselves sitting uncomfortably on the fence!

They say when we drive; many accidents are caused by hesitations...because decisions weren't made. Sometimes it's better to make a decision and be wrong, rather than not make a decision and not move. I often don't make decisions in fear of making the wrong one. The wrong decision would mean and could lead to mistakes. But if mistakes aren't made, how do we learn? So don't be afraid of making decisions, because even in the midst of mistakes, success can be found. Thomas Edison decided to invent the light

bulb. The first thousand tries could have indicated that he made the wrong decision. But through his mistakes, the light bulb was invented. Don't let fear cause you to hesitate. What decision do you need to make?