To move the family or stick it out where you are?

Take the new job or keep plugging away?

Fight THIS battle, or let it go?

Go back to school or stay in your current role?

Work on the relationship, or end it?

Discipline the child, or talk it out?

We are faced with difficult decisions every day, moment by moment.  The “right” decision is not always obvious or easy.  Sometimes, when we feel the most pressure to make a decision, it is the best time to wait.

Sometimes we have to give intuition time to work.  Or, we need to let more data present itself.  Either way, the answer, as much as we may not want to embrace it, is patience.  Frankl writes of our “noetic core”, our “noös” – that part of the human being, our soul, that contains the conscience, intuition, creativity, and the like.  That part of us that is never “sick”, but that can become burdened or weakened from lack of use.  When we allow these parts of us to work on a problem, to “sleep on it”, maybe for longer than a night, we come up with a far better decision than we could have imagined.

“For the deliberations of mortals are timid, and unsure are our plans.  For the corruptible body burdens the soul and the earthen shelter weighs down the mind that has many concerns…”  Book of Wisdom 9:14-15

But when we take the time to be patient, to be still.  To wait.  How do our decisions become more meaningful?