When is it right to be sensible in
daily life? At what time do you know when change is necessary to progress in the direction you need to go in? What are reasonable and transformational decisions and actions and what risks
do they involve?
We all live in a reasonable world
where people do reasonable things in a reasonable way; a predictable way. This is ok for the majority of our lives but without
change our lives would eventually fail. To effect change we must make transformational decisions in our lives.
Reasonable action and decision
making means you live in the present. Its low risk because it is simply continuance, doing
what we have always done the way we have always done it. Reasonable creates the systems of the world and maintains them while
allowing for small evolutionary changes to take place as required. It also deals with the daily-ness of life; what should be happening in the world and our routines.
It is the path of least resistance because reasonable systems need reasonable people to run them and make them work properly. The anatomy of reasonable is that it requires no decision to do
because it is already a routine and very little will is needed to do it, with varying degrees of passion or enjoyment and ending with predictable results.
Reasonable maintains the status quo
in our lives and our world. When this type of decision is made the worlds systems run smoothly and predictably and things
get done in the way we have come to expect. It gives our lives a sense of stability and safety that all is well in our individual worlds and is comforting for us.
Transformational decision and actions
bring about all-important changes in our lives and in our world. They are the bases of our survival and are usually high risk.
We make this type of decision when we have emergencies, challenges or we are in danger. These decisions change the world and make life-changing differences in our lives.
This anatomy involves making
a sudden decision, something that just happens on the spur of the moment. We need to create the will to follow through on them and if necessary, overcome the world and society's training or just friends
and families' attitudes.
Sometimes you need to find the passion and at times its just there. This is also where outrageous results live, both positive and negative. It can be a challenging road to follow because it brings change and challenges us to adapt to the changes it creates.
What evidence does the world show
that transformational decisions have changed the world? During the Second World War when Winston Churchill was asked to give a long speech, he shocked the world with
the shortest speech ever given: "Never Give Up! Never Give Up! Never, Ever Give Up!
That speech won the Free World,
the Second World War! Think of the impact of the words and relate them to the circumstances.
Martin Luther King changed the world with "I Have a Dream."
These were very high
risk transformational decisions made by these men and taken to the world, whether the world was ready to hear
it or not. Martin Luther King was assassinated for that speech and the threat many in this world perceived but years after his death, "I Have a Dream" still reverberates and resonates with us and we
are beginning to achieve his dream.
I have never heard his speech
but the mere title speaks to me and I know, innately, what it means. These are some of the effects of transformational decisions
that are both life and world changing. Not all of them have such high reaching results, most a just big enough to change our own, individual lives in some way.
Usually for the better but
when this type of decision is made at the wrong time or for the wrong reason, we risk going
down in flames. This is one reason why we tend to shy away from making these decisions, even when we are in desperate need of making them.
So, reasonable decisions give
us a sense of what is right and how things in the world and our lives are supposed to work, while transitional decisions bring
change and we require them to be made if we are to survive and progress to the next level, whatever that level may be in our lives
or in the world around us. Which decisions do you need to be making in your life to get the results you want to achieve and are you ready to make them.
