Making decisions

Snippets of wisdom about making decisions has been coming to me recently from very unlikely sources. Perhaps I am present enough to hear them.

One day at the Yoga House, I flipped through a modern translation of the Bhagavad Gita and saw a passage that said something like, "any action is better than inaction." Interesting.

Today, when I interviewed the Interim President, he quoted some famous general whose name I can't remember and said, a good leader never gets paralyzed and makes decisions. If you get paralyzed, everyone around you gets paralyzed. Nothing happens. But if you make a decision, even if you have no idea what you are doing and it is a mistake, it at least allows other people to either agree or disagree with you. Nobody is paralyzed, everyone is still active. And if you have good people around you, they will let you know that it is a mistake. And then you will know what to do from there. Never get paralyzed. Just make a decision.

Sound advice. I like it. Paralysis has been an unwelcome friend the past few years. Goodbye, so long, adios sucka.