Discovering the Way to Walk Out of Fear – Part Seven

Discovering the Way to Walk Out of Fear – Part Seven

 

 

Make Good, Confident Decisions

 

Decisions were a total maze for me. I was so confident in the belief that everyone else knew more than I did. Guess what? They didn’t. However, I believed their opinion was so far above mine that I continued to accept their desires rather than my own. I needed someone to tell me that I could make good decisions. Ironically, no one ever did because they didn’t know they needed to.

 

The first time I looked for a job, I accepted employment at a place I didn’t even want to work. Since they willingly hired me, I felt compelled to accept. That decision kept me tied to an area of service for years simply because it earmarked me in a certain direction. Knowing how to make proper decisions would have saved me a lot of time and anguish.

 

Be Organized

 

I had a dreadful time when it came to organizing clutter. Oh, I could do it for short periods of time. However, confusion would eventually set in, and I’d be right back where I started. The pressure to reorganize was too stressful, so I put it off until another time.

 

Have you ever had your desk at school or work so cluttered that you had to dig through every paper on it trying to find that little scrap of paper you wrote a phone number down on? It would have been so easy to write the number in your address book when you first received it or program it into your cell phone. Somehow, the clutter mode kicked into gear before that was able to happen.

 

I wish I could back up and redo a lot of my decisions and actions of the past, but I can’t -- that season is over. As a friend of mine once said, “This life is not a practice run. It is the real thing.” We only get one time to go around, so make it on your terms – make it a life that is good for you as well as those around you.