Critical Choices That Change Lives: How Heroes Turn Tragedy Into Triumph by Daniel R. Castro

Author:Daniel R. Castro [Castro, Daniel]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: General, Self-Help, Motivational & Inspirational, Success, Choice (Psychology), Change (Psychology), How Heroes Turn Tragedy Into Triumph
ISBN: 9780974054315
Publisher: Beartooth Press
Published: 2005-09-30T03:28:59.676000+00:00

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CRITICAL CHOICES THAT CHANGE LIVES

"When you make a choice, you mobilize vast human energies and resources which otherwise go untapped."

— ROBERT FRITZ

It is not always a good idea to wait for the "best" time to act. In some cases, by waiting too long we lose the only opportunity we will ever have to make a critical difference. D-Day was perhaps the most decisive military engagement of World War II. But General Dwight D. Eisenhower nearly blew D-Day because he couldn't decide the best moment for attack.

Finally, he said, "No matter what the weather looks like, we have to go ahead now. Waiting any longer could be even more dangerous. So let's move it." As a result of this decision, D-Day was the beginning of the end of World War II. Eisenhower's decision behind the decision was to stop thinking about it and take action. If you're waiting for the best time to act, you may wait forever.

"There is a point at which we have to make a leap of faith, the point after which the right decision becomes wrong because it has been made too late."

— JOE GRIFFITH

Author Lauri Beth Jones, in her book Jesus, CEO, describes a classic example of what it takes to "jump." She writes:

"A year ago my mother went to visit an art gallery in Sedona, Arizona. After Mom oohed and aahed about how lucky the woman working there was to live in such a hauntingly beautiful part of the country, the woman said,

"Why don't you move here?" Mom immediately replied that she didn't think she could afford to live there. The woman laughed and said, "You think I'm made of money?

No way. But one day I decided that this is where I wanted to live, so I up and moved here. You can too." Then she gave her a list of real estate offices to visit. On the way home Mom kept saying to herself, "That woman lives in Sedona. Why not me?" She went home to El Paso, praying the whole way, put her home of thirty-four years on the market, sold it that day to a man who had always admired it, and within sixty days she was sipping tea on her new balcony in Sedona."

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