decisions, decisions!

from Alan Cohen's daily email quotes:

Don't make any decisions before you need to. -- source unknown

I say something like this to clients quite often. Which, of course, means I need to hear it!

My reasoning is this: At the time the decision must be made, I will have more information than I do now. Any choice made in advance of that moment may have to be changed to accomodate last minute information received, so why waste time and energy on it now?

And even if there's no new data to consider at the moment the choice must be made, additional emotional or intuitive cues will be available to me then that aren't here now. Seems to me it's worth the wait.

There's always something better I could be doing than ruminating about the future. So I put it aside and promise myself that when the decision comes into my present moment, I will give it my full attention.

Maybe decisions are like roses ... the most beautiful ones have been allowed to unfold from within on a timetable all their own.