Decision #1,326

One thing parents do every day is make a bunch of little decisions. The same is true when you’re growing a business or managing a team.

In the moment, these little decisions may not feel like much. Something needs to get done and a concise (ethical) choice is made on how to do that. By tomorrow, or the next hour, you’ve moved on to something else.

Sometimes a little decision matters to the big picture.

Sometimes it is completely detached from anything other than the present.

Sometimes you make a little decision knowing it may backfire later, but you do it anyway.

Sometimes you make a little decision unaware of the future consequences.

Sometimes you do it so fast you don’t even realize you’re actually making a decision.

Sometimes your little decision adds technical or relational or financial debt.

Sometimes your little decision is completely selfless, other times it feels selfish.

Your brain and body take a toll with so many forks in the road, so probably best to create some structure on how to even think about tomorrow’s little decision #1,326.