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Your Decision Determines Your Destiny
(Lesson 6)
Your Decision Determines Your Destiny
(Lesson 6)
Million Leaders MandateNotebook Five
Your Decision Determines Your Destiny
Your Decision Determines Your Destiny
Effective Leadership Requires Making Wise Decisions
“I have set before you life and death, blessing and the curse. Therefore,
choose life in order that you may live.”(Deuteronomy 30:19)
Conclusions about Our Choices
Conclusions about Our Choices
1. Leaders bring PEOPLE to a point of decision.
2. In some areas, we have no CHOICE.
3. In some areas, we do have a CHOICE.
4. We are RESPONSIBLE to make right choices.
Conclusions about our Choices
Conclusions about our Choices
5. The SOONER we make right choices, the better.
6. Leaders make choices FIRST.
7. A leader’s choices INFLUENCE others.
ConditionsConditions
ChoicesChoices
Birth Adulthood
Conditions Choices
Early Life Later Life
Involuntary Voluntary
We React
Others Choose
We Initiate
We Choose
1. FOUNDATION STAGE
– What is the history?
2. FACT STAGE
– What are the facts?
3. FEEDBACK STAGE
– What are the emotions?
Six Phases of Decision MakingSix Phases of Decision Making
4. FOCUS STAGE
– What is the wise choice?
*At this point, you make a decision.
5. FRUIT STAGE
– How can this decision bear fruit
and be successful?
Six Phases of Decision MakingSix Phases of Decision Making
Six Phases of Decision MakingSix Phases of Decision Making
6. FORWARD STAGE
– When do we move?a. The wrong decision at the wrong time = DISASTER
b. The wrong decision at the right time = MISTAKE
c. The right decision at the wrong time = UNACCEPTANCE
d. The right decision at the right time = SUCCESS
A Process for Decision Making
A Process for Decision Making
1. CONTEMPLATION (James 1:2-4)
2. SUPPLICATION (James 1:5)
3. ANTICIPATION (James 1:6-8)
Decision Making in the Gray Areas
Decision Making in the Gray Areas
1. Prioritize God’s People
2. Pursue God’s Glory
3. Perceive God’s Purpose
Principles on Decision Making
Principles on Decision Making
1. Choice, not chance, determines my DESTINY.
2. To choose not to decide is to choose to let SOMEONE ELSE control my life.3. To choose to decide is to take
RESPONSIBILITY.4. Indecision is the mark of a FEARFUL
mind.
Principles in Decision Making
Principles in Decision Making
5. Decisiveness is the mark of a LEADER.
6. Followers can live without certainty, but they cannot live without CLARITY.
7. The leader who INSISTS on perfect knowledge before he decides, never decides.
Principles in Decision Making
Principles in Decision Making
8. Decisions RELEASE energy, insight, commitment and support.
9. The larger the group of followers, the greater the PRESSURE to conform.
10.Great people are ordinary people who make extraordinary DECISIONS.
Principles in Decision Making
Principles in Decision Making
11.Decisions should be made at the LOWEST level possible in an organization.
12.Success is not for the chosen few, but for the few who CHOOSE.