Million Leaders Mandate
Notebook Five
Your Decision
Determines
Your Destiny
(Lesson 6)
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
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
5. The SOONER we make right
choices, the better.
6. Leaders make choices FIRST.
7. A leader’s choices INFLUENCE
others.
Choices
Conditions
Birth
Adulthood
Conditions
Choices
Early Life
Involuntary
Later Life
Voluntary
Others Choose
We Choose
We React
We Initiate
Six Phases of Decision Making
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 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 Making
6. FORWARD STAGE
– When do we move?
a.
b.
c.
d.
The wrong decision at the wrong time = DISASTER
The wrong decision at the right time = MISTAKE
The right decision at the wrong time = UNACCEPTANCE
The right decision at the right time = SUCCESS
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
1. Prioritize God’s People
2. Pursue God’s Glory
3. Perceive God’s Purpose
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
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
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
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.