Time for a decision

After my recent trip to South Africa where we are trying to decide our exact plans for 2012, and as the Euro crisis rumbles on with no particular (happy) end in sight, something that has struck me a lot is the importance of timing of any particular decision. There are always multiple ways to skin any particular cat and the decision outcomes can be varied, but it is clear that whether or not a decision you take is the right one rests heavily on the exact moment the decision is taken. In turn, this also means that it may well be quite valid to reopen, or even reverse, a previously taken decision if key assumptions are different at a later point in time. This doesn’t naturally sit easy with someone like me who has a “tick box” or “cross it off the to-do list” type mentality, but I suppose it’s just something else you learn, or at least start to appreciate better, as you move through life.