The First Day

Of the rest of your life. Choose wisely.

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When was the last time you made a big decision? Let me ask the question a different way. When was the last time you made a life-altering decision?

We believe that everyone knows how to make a decision. Actually, given the number of wrong decisions that any one of us makes, daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly, we don’t have a clue.

First, what are those life-altering decisions? Here are some examples:

• Go to college
• Get married
• Have children
• Take the job in East Egypt Ohio vs. The North End of Las Vegas.
• Take mind-altering substances (liquor, drugs) while trying to decide.

There are, of course, many more examples that we could give. You probably have done this before.

How did you make the decision? Was it:

• A coin toss
• The recommendation from someone that has nothing to lose if you make the wrong decision
• “Everybody thinks I should.”
• Or, Mom and Dad said . . . (sometimes this is O.K. as long as you accept the decision as to your own)