How can we know we are making the right decision when we say NO to an opportunity?
“You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.” attributed to Winston Churchill (see note below) Making decisions is one of the most challenging things we do as humans in this world. Make a good one, and life unfolds “as it should”. Make a questionable one, and it might all go sideways. Which decision will take us down which path? How to know? Decision-making is, at least in part, about our tolerance for risk and our sense of trust: How willing are we to take a risk on whatever the circumstances are that the decision will take us into? How much do we trust ourself and any others involved to make good of those circumstances? These questions are ever present in my mind and were given new life recently when I listened to Tricia Rose Burt’s TEDxPortsmouth Talk “How I redeemed 35 years of regret” — because regret is a close relation to risk and trust. Get the risk and the trust right, and regret doesn’t show up. But get either wrong and, wham, ...