“Our task is to decide what we want to gain and what to lose”

I agree with friends suggesting writing things down. Sometimes, especially when the decision is more complicated, it is not easy to process the information e.g. pros, cons, benefits, logic etc in our mind. I had to make a very tough decision recently that would change my life for ever. In order to come up with a decision, I had to review the last 2 and half years of my life. It wasn’t easy, but once I started writing things down, I was able to see things clearly and made the decision.

Our life is no longer as easy as it was for people living a century ago, where people used to be born, marry, and die in the same place as their grandparents. We are living in a dynamic world and making decisions are no longer as easy as it was for our parents or grandparents. In addition, the number of decisions we have to make, I could say, daily is more than people used to make in a year. Despite all this, we have to decide how we want to live and which way we want to go. These choices have both good or bad, win or lose etc results that made them very similar. Our task is to decide what we want to gain and what to lose…

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