This piece is about decision making. A lot of times in our lives, we allow things to just take a free fall and this applies mostly in periods of decision making. When we are expected to act on a situation, we contemplate a lot of options and at the end of the time, we miss the right timing and the consequences of such dilly-dallying is always not pleasant.
Decision making is one area of our lives that we take the toga of being our own "enemies". You can never make a great decision from poor information. Before you take a dive in making a decision, you must first of all gather all the necessary information about the situation. Most of the times, we do not have any information at all and we go ahead to decide. That is disastrous. However, one other problem is the fact that many people gather all the information they could get and they never get to the point of deciding. They keep contemplating the options for months and at the end of the day, they end of not deciding at all or deciding when the decision was not longer relevant.
Decision making is mostly tied to destiny matters. Destiny decisions are critical and most of us shoot ourselves in the foot when we blow it. There is always a second chance but it would have been great fun to have decided right in the first place.
There are some common sense elements we must always apply in decision making. Why should you be in a room filled with smoke, you feel the heat and you see exit yet you seat down and pray for God to rescue you! What more rescue to you need besides the circumstances that is already sending you messages?
You are a lady; you live in an abusive relationship with a man determined to kill you, yet you go on living there and praying that God should save him... like my mentor and father in the faith, Bishop TD Jakes said, "that prayer is good, but if I were you, I would be praying that prayer from a long distance from where that abusive man is!" The man may be your husband but the moment he turned abusive, he is ugly and must be isolated. God does not reward suicide.
As a man, you want a wife. You stumble on someone who looks pretty and good looking... you never check out the mind of the lady and are only interested in the hibs, libs and boobs! When you are asked why you are making that choice, you tell us "I love her!" That's ok. But 2 years down the line, you may be speaking differently because you never checked her out.
Let's deal with the enemy of wrong decision making and our lives will be worth the while.
