One thing I have really been working on over the past few years has been making decisions and choices. If I were to sum up the common theme of my learning experiences for about 5 years (this is an estimate, I've always dealt with this, but recent years it seems to come back to this distinct theme) I would have to say that the theme has been "eventually I have to make a decision". Very rarely, if ever, have I HAD to wait for anything. Even though it would seem like I've been stuck in a situation where I really have no control and just need to wait for things to pan out for me, in reality, I chose to wait, or to postpone, or stall. And almost every time that I've stalled on my decisions, I was really wasting my time. The sooner I become settled on an idea, the quicker I can get on the right track that I need to be on.
If I make a wrong decision, it happens very quickly that I notice it was wrong and I usually quickly recover. On the other hand, if I stall or wait to make a decision before I know sufficient details, I'm only wasting my own time because there is no guarantee that things will work out as I expect in the end until I make a decision.
It kinda sounds like blindly charging into situations, and in a sense it is charging into situations, but I've found that it is always better to have a decision and work for it, or to have an opinion of a matter or to take a side, and then to also always be willing to change sides or be persuaded and make new decisions than it is to stall. Case in point, my college education: I could have stalled making a decision to go to school until after I returned from a mission, but if I did, I probably would never have gone to school. Now, even though i might regret not going to a different school, I can't complain too much because I AM learning and it's better than just wishing and hoping that I would find the time to go to school and that I could pick the perfect school for me.
Life really doesn't work for that. You have to make decisions, accept the consequences and hope that you always have more decisions you can make to make it better. If I really felt like school was a complete waste of time, I wouldn't be here still, and even though I might teeter between the two and think that maybe I would be better without school, I'm sticking with my original decision: that it's better to go to school, and at this point to go to this school, than it is for me to go to another school or to drop out completely. I've weighed my options and I'm sticking with my original decision. If circumstances change I might think twice about my decision, but it will take substantial persuasion to convince me otherwise.
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