From the desk of Willie Delwiche.
“We make our decisions, and then our decisions make us.”
I came across that quote in a book I was reading this week (no apologies here — I read books — that’s what I do).
That prompted me to think about how it was this time last year that I had some decisions to make about what was next in my professional journey. JC and I talked about my joining the All Star Charts team. I (we) made the decision to do just that — and while the impacts of that decision continue to unfold, I’ve not regretted it for a moment. And knowing what I know now, that decision seems more obvious than it did when I made it a year ago.
It’s not just the active decisions that form us. Where we pay attention matters as well. The 18th century poet William Blake was ahead of his time when he observed how “we become what we behold.”