Think how many decisions you make every hour of every day of every year: too many to count, and nearly too many to remember. Not surprisingly, the ones you get wrong are usually the ones you remember the most: nobody seems to remember or comment on the ones you get right. And each of those wrong ones leave a scar on you heart, the kind that teach a lifetime’s worth of lessons. It’s not like you can stop to make some of those decisions – life is often moving too fast for that; so, it’s doubly important that you take the appropriate amount of time to make your decisions. Ask lots of questions, don’t take anything for granted, make sure you get all the facts, talk to as many people as it takes to get a proper perspective, and then take an extra minute to think if there’s anything else that might be relevant. Do what’s needed to make decisions you can be proud of today.
Wallace Stegner (1909 – 1993): American novelist, short story writer, environmentalist, and historian, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the U.S. National Book Award
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