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<\/a><\/div>\n\u2026and experience comes from bad decisions \u2013 that\u2019s the small print under \u201cDecisions\u201d in the poster above.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Timely for me because I\u2019ve been mulling a biggish opportunity and even after all these years of Zen practice, I tend to do the process that I\u2019ve done for years.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Namely, getting stuck in my capacity to come up with equally good reasons for both \u201cyes\u201d and \u201cno.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n And as an old chess player, I try to see four or five moves out. Life, however, is infinitely more complex and less predictable than chess so swirling around in all of that has limited utility.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n In the midst of it, a good friend reminded me to take one step at a time.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Oh, yeah! Forgot about that for a while there.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Anyway, the worst-case scenario is that whatever I choose will look like a bad decision down the road and then it might be the basis for a good decision. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \u2026and experience comes from bad decisions \u2013 that\u2019s the small print under \u201cDecisions\u201d in the poster above.\u00a0 Timely for me because I\u2019ve been mulling a biggish opportunity and even after all these years of Zen practice, I tend to do the process that I\u2019ve done for years.\u00a0 Namely, getting stuck in my capacity to come […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n