![]() We react not to what they are doing but to the direction they are heading. This explains why we respond the way we do when someone we love is snuggling up to that elusive line. You’re dry and safe and then you’re drowning. It’s a foolish and dangerous way to live. Nobody is doing anything wrong until they are.ĭrawing our lines, setting our limits, establishing our moral and ethical standards on the borderline between right and wrong, legal and illegal, healthy and unhealthy eliminates any margin for error. The Maturity Question: What Is the Wise Thing to Do? Is there a tension that deserves your attention? I will explore, rather than ignore my conscience. Is there a tension that deserves my attention? Intoxicated people can’t help themselves.īut sober people often won’t help themselves.Īnd that leads us to the third question we should pause to ask every time we are making even moderately important decisions. But we’ve all seen what happens when sober people choose to ignore their consciences-that internal tension that always deserves our attention. The inebriated aren’t even conscious of their consciences. But we’ve all seen sober people refuse to pay attention to those same cues. Intoxicated people can’t pay attention to social, cultural, and relational cues. But we sober people are often guilty of choosing to ignore the cues around us and the internal tension within us. Inebriated people can’t pay attention to the cues around them or the internal tension within them. Well, if you’re drunk, it should be obvious. They don’t consciously ignore their conscience. When someone is drunk, they don’t consciously ignore common sense. The Conscience Question: Is There a Tension That Deserves My Attention? Our personal decisions will impact other personsĮvery decision you make becomes a permanent part of your story. Our private decisions won’t remain private. ![]() What we do know is that private decisions have public implications. We never know what or who hangs in the balance of the decisions we make, and thus the stories we tell. But you decide one decision at a time, because you write the story of your life. The Legacy Question: What Story Do I Want to Tell?Įvery decision you make becomes a permanent part of your story. After all, your decisions determine the direction and quality of your life as well as the lives of those you love. Are you willing to be honest with yourself even if it makes you feel bad about yourself? You’ll never get to where you need to be until you acknowledge where you actually are to begin with. Refusing to address what’s bad about ourselves is bad for ourselves. For starters, clinging to something bad about yourself. There are worse things than feeling bad about yourself. I will not lie to myself even when the truth You ignored know better and started selling yourself on what yourself wanted in the moment. In many instances, maybe even most, you knew better. But in most cases, you didn’t decide by carefully weighing all the options and seeking wise counsel. You’ve done more to undermine you own success and progress than anyone on the planet. The easiest person to deceive is the person in the mirror. The Integrity Question: Am I Being Honest With Myself. and this is big: Your decisions determine your story. are about the only thing you can control in life, which means your decisions are how you control your life. along with your responses to other people’s decisions, which are also your decisions. Our futures will be determined by our decisions as well. But in the end, we are where we are because of decisions we’ve made. Others of us (me included) can’t ever get enough information before we decide.
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