I was in my favorite deli recently, and someone had taken a couple of drinks out of these two giant drink coolers that cover almost an entire wall in this deli. As they were walking towards the counter, I said, “Wow, they have everything under the sun here.” With that, the person looked back, saw […]
choices, decision paralysis, Decisions, deli, options
In the wonderful musical, The King and I, there is a scene where the king is despairing about all these big issues that he has to grapple with and kind of potentially make decisions about, and he sort of throws up his hands because all of this to him is what he calls a puzzlement. […]
Decisions, puzzle, puzzlement, scene, the king and i
The other day, I was at a supermarket considering whether or not to get something from the hot food bar for lunch. A woman walked up next to me and was looking at the hot food bar also, and we were considering different options, and then kind of moved around each other to look at […]
decision, decision making, Decisions, making a decision
Back when I was deciding where to go to college, I wasn’t entirely certain about my choice, which was a school in Washington, DC. My father came down to help me move in, and right before he left, I think sensing that I wasn’t fully happy with this choice, he said,” you know the train […]
advice, Decisions, happy, train
Sometimes, when trying to solve a problem, you can hit a wall. The answers or the solutions just aren’t coming to you, no matter how much you think about it. And that can be really frustrating. One way of dealing with this is to look around your world for some random phrase or idea that […]
decision making, Decisions, fortune cookie
Yogi Berra is famously quoted as having said,” When you come to a fork in the road… take it.” Some people think that’s funny because it may be referring to an actual fork, like a utensil is laying in the road. One explanation of why Berra said that, though, is less about a play on […]
actions, decision-making, Decisions
I was at a business networking event where one of the people introduced herself as a wedding photographer. And people were very interested in that it was sort of novel to have someone like that at this particular business networking group’s event. And when they started asking her questions, she revealed that she had been […]
career, career decisions, decision-making, Decisions
In the classic movie “Cool Hand Luke”, Luke, who’s played by Paul Newman, wins a hand at poker with a valuable pot, without cards or combinations of any value in his hand. When he’s confronted with the fact that he basically won with nothing, he said,” Sometimes nothing is a real cool hand.” In decision-making, […]
decision-making, Decisions, Mindfulness