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“You can't make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.” ― Michelle Obama Let me ask you a question, an important one for your life. What is better? Taking action and maybe make a terrible mistake or to take no action and die slowly(or quickly) anyway? Life is all about making choices, and taking action.

If you can't decide what to do with your life, someone (or some event) will do that  for you. Your indecisiveness can make you a slave! by Michael Corthell We human beings, as a whole, are surprisingly bad at making logical choices, especially when the decisions we have to make involve too many conflicting options. Many people give up and leave their decision-making up to others by taking a vote, throwing a dart in a map or tossing a coin. ''When you see how the President makes political or policy decisions, you see who he is. The essence of the Presidency is decision-making.'' — Bob Woodward The process of decision making can be made much easier if we weigh all options using a 'pros & cons' list. One of the greatest men in American history used this method. Below Benjamin Franklin describes how he used the 'pros & cons' list. "My way is to divide half a sheet of paper by a line into two columns; writing ov...