A couple topics on my mind today. Time to ramble:
Decision making:
- How do you make decisions? Scheduling social engagements, financial decisions, etc.?
- Prayer is key. I think prayer can create those gut feelings to know when something is right or wrong.
- I certainly don’t want to trust in myself.
- We talk about creating a foundation for a decision.
- A major financial decision in our home is never a surprise. We talk about our priorities and communicate them openly.
- We talk timeline, budget, available cash, etc.
- We talk through what we want and how we’d like things to turn out.
- We do all this WAY BEFORE we really need to buy something.
- That way, when the right deal comes along, we’re ready to act on it because we know what we want.
- It’s kind of the same with calendar type stuff. I can schedule a night away with my own friends or with having friends over because we’re on the same page. Julie can do the same.
- We can react to what our kids want to do because we’ve talked about it AHEAD OF TIME.
- We both know our calendar pretty well so it helps us to make good decisions when the kids ask about things.
- Simply put: we do everything we can do to avoid having to make snap decisions.
- It’s a better use of time and energy and it creates less stress. It also reduces the probability of a fight over said stress.
- Thoughts?
The good and bad of extremes:
- I’m someone prone to extremes.
- By this I mean the high of highs and the low of lows.
- Example: I’ve seen the same band 10 times waiting for that one amazing show. (I’ve seen 2 or 3).
- Example: The same guy who loves the rush of the roller coaster (literally) is prone to the lower ends of discouragement or depressing times.
- Is this all bad? I can’t say I think so. I think some of it is personality type.
- I’m not down on others who aren’t like me, I just need to know myself. I can’t complain about the lows or middling around waiting for the intense experience. I need to know that’s the way I am and be ready to deal with it.
- The good is you really appreciate the best of the best when it happens.
- The bad is the bad can be . . . really bad.
- For me, it’s worth the risk. Part of my personality, I guess!