Decide Now

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Sep 10, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 35.

A LARGE part of our lifetime is wasted because of our deferred decisions. It is always easier to postpone a decision than to make it; so it usually gets postponed. Nine times out of ten we could, if we would merely insist on a slight effort of will, decide matters the first time they come before us, and thus leave the future just so much freer for new duties and decisions. Instead, we take a thing up, consider its pros and cons, and lay it down again. Sheer laziness of will is the reason. "Don't pick over things," once said one of the greatest business men America has produced. It is better to make some mistakes while we are forming the habit of prompt decision than to avoid all mistakes at the cost of dallying with our time and energies. But prompt decisions are more than likely to be correct decisions, for the very effort of deciding quickly means a concentrating of one's best powers on the subject in hand. We have no right to burden to-morrow with decisions that ought to be made to-day.—Sunday School Times.