Comments on: Multiple Choice Gone Mad http://www.struggletovictory.com/multiple-choice-gone-mad/ Making the most of every opportunity. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:40:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Kari Scare http://www.struggletovictory.com/multiple-choice-gone-mad/#comment-479 Kari Scare Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:26:52 +0000 http://www.struggletovictory.com/?p=840#comment-479 Thanks Mark!

]]> By: Mark Allman http://www.struggletovictory.com/multiple-choice-gone-mad/#comment-478 Mark Allman Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:53:39 +0000 http://www.struggletovictory.com/?p=840#comment-478 I d be honored Kari. I am vaderalman on Twitter. I do not have a website. My email is vaderalman@aol.com
Mark

]]> By: Kari Scare http://www.struggletovictory.com/multiple-choice-gone-mad/#comment-477 Kari Scare Wed, 25 Apr 2012 17:14:39 +0000 http://www.struggletovictory.com/?p=840#comment-477 Awesome! Thanks.

]]> By: Melissa http://www.struggletovictory.com/multiple-choice-gone-mad/#comment-476 Melissa Wed, 25 Apr 2012 16:54:09 +0000 http://www.struggletovictory.com/?p=840#comment-476 Hi Kari,

I'm flattered. You can link to my blog at bookofmel.wordpress.com.
:-) ~ Melissa

]]> By: Kari Scare http://www.struggletovictory.com/multiple-choice-gone-mad/#comment-475 Kari Scare Wed, 25 Apr 2012 16:18:18 +0000 http://www.struggletovictory.com/?p=840#comment-475 I would like to quote part of your comments in my post on Friday. Do you have a web site or blog I can link to? Or, maybe a Twitter?

]]> By: Kari Scare http://www.struggletovictory.com/multiple-choice-gone-mad/#comment-470 Kari Scare Tue, 24 Apr 2012 22:58:35 +0000 http://www.struggletovictory.com/?p=840#comment-470 Very good points about personalities. They definitely do impact how we make decisions as well as how many decisions we can handle making. Your point about decisions being consistent with values is good too. Regardless of how we make decisions, I think they must be consistent with our values. Thank you for your input. It has added yet another dimension to my research on making decisions.

]]> By: Tim Van Milligan http://www.struggletovictory.com/multiple-choice-gone-mad/#comment-469 Tim Van Milligan Tue, 24 Apr 2012 18:15:41 +0000 http://www.struggletovictory.com/?p=840#comment-469 What you're seeing here is the difference between personality types. In the Myers-Briggs personality trait system, you have P's and J's. The P is for perceiver, and the J is for Judgers. The J's make a decision, and then live with the consequences. The P's want to make the perfect decision, so they delay the process until they have all the information. They don't want to be limited, and keep all their options open. I'm a J. Not all my decisions are going to be great, but they will be consistent with my values. That is the part I think you're talking about when you say you want to make focused decisions. You need to define what your values are, so that your decisions are consistent with them. As a J, I know that to free up my time for other things, I try to systematize the mundane stuff as much as possible. That means I'm not going to see every rainbow that God creates, because I'll be working my system. I can live with that. But my philosophy is that "the deal of a life-time comes around 1000 times per week." So the rainbow I miss today will come around again and again. When I have time or desire, I'll catch it on the go-around. If I die before then, I'm still at peace with the decisions I've made.

]]> By: Kari Scare http://www.struggletovictory.com/multiple-choice-gone-mad/#comment-468 Kari Scare Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:45:13 +0000 http://www.struggletovictory.com/?p=840#comment-468 To some extent, I think that is true. But, I also know from my experience with simplifying my life, that having fewer areas in which to make decisions helps me to make better quality decisions in the areas that matter most to me. Now, I'm not sure that equates to less decisions overall, but I feel like the quality of my decisions and the progress with regard to ambition, risk, drive and accomplishment increases when I have less on which to focus. I'm not talking about avoiding decisions, and perhaps that's a point I need to be sure to make clear in Friday's post, but I am talking about making more focused decisions. I really appreciate you helping me think this out. I really am not totally sure on this myself yet.

]]> By: lorenpinilis http://www.struggletovictory.com/multiple-choice-gone-mad/#comment-467 lorenpinilis Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:38:07 +0000 http://www.struggletovictory.com/?p=840#comment-467 Well, maybe it's a knee-jerk reaction. But it seems to me that limiting decisions means limiting ambition, risk, drive, or accomplishment. My concern would be that a fear of decisions would leave us to avoid things – similar to procrastination or a fear of failure.
I'm thinking that rather than avoiding decisions, the better approach would be to embrace the fact of making decisions and to strive to be better at making them.
I might be wrong, but that's just my gut reaction :)

]]> By: Kari Scare http://www.struggletovictory.com/multiple-choice-gone-mad/#comment-465 Kari Scare Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:25:38 +0000 http://www.struggletovictory.com/?p=840#comment-465 Do you think people are having to make too many decisions? Just curious as to why you don't think we should necessarily limit the number of decisions we make. Certainly relevant for Friday's post if you have time to elaborate. Your two points are terrific too and ones to definitely include in the discussion. Thanks, as always, for your insight.

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