THURSDAY THOUGHTS

A lot of anger, confusion, worrying, or fretting about HOW decisions are, or were made, can be nipped in the bud by simply considering WHO’S making the decisions. Whose idea was that? Who signed off on that? Who has/had authority? Who’s representing? Who’s speaking? What do they know, think, prefer, believe, or assume? 

All of THAT will inform you. That will answer your questions. That will explain why THIS inauthenticity, as opposed to THAT reality. Decisions don’t make themselves.

Knowing who’s making the decisions, will make the nonsensical outcomes make sense. It will reveal why excellence was seemingly overlooked, in favor of mediocrity. It will explain striking omissions and obvious exclusions. It will determine why what could have been had, was scrapped, fumbled, or never materialized. 

The results of decisions may be disappointing, lacking, infuriating, wasteful, laughable, or curiously odd, but you have to acknowledge who has the last word, and who’s in charge. Whether they should be, and how they got to be, is another conversation. Who made the decisions, and what are their qualifications to do so, are questions that explain EVERYTHING. 

If the decision makers aren’t efficient, aren’t knowledgeable, are lone wolves, don’t ask questions, don’t know who TO ask, rely on limited or erroneous information, are partial, misinformed, indifferent, delusional, incompetent, arrogant, or disconnected, it will be glaringly reflected in their choices, what they present, champion, and offer.