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Making Decisions

Should You
A bad husband,
G-d forbid,
is better
than no husband,
G-d forbid.
- Yenta
Fiddler on the Roof
Most
of our solutions
are really
decisions.
– Rabbi Shraga Silverstein,
A Candle by Day

Some people have difficulty making good decisions. Other people make hasty decisions, without thinking about them sufficiently. They hope that everything will work out.

In some cases, things do work out, and in some cases they don't.

And other people are concerned about every decision that they make.

Perhaps some of these people face a brain overload. They have too many decisions to make. It might help to restrict or limit their number of decisions.

However, that won't necessarily restrict the number of mistakes that a person makes.

The real question is how to make decisions in a way that will reduce the chance of error, while increasing the possibility of making a decisions that are the best for you, and that have the fewest number of negative ramifications.

This may demand a great deal of analysis. You may not be prepared to analyze issues so deeply. You do need guidelines for to making decisions in general.

If you make enough decisions, then you should be able to increase your satisfaction with life and improve your own needs and requirements. It will make you a better and more well-adjusted person.

And of course the methods of making decisions will be of value to people whose job it is to evaluate others.

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