{"id":14135,"date":"2020-02-12T08:00:57","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T16:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/?p=14135"},"modified":"2020-02-12T08:00:57","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T16:00:57","slug":"saturday-evening-post-column-how-to-get-major-life-decisions-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/saturday-evening-post-column-how-to-get-major-life-decisions-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Evening Post column: How to Get Major Life Decisions Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Saturday Evening Post<\/em> published my latest column, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.saturdayeveningpost.com\/2020\/02\/how-to-get-major-life-decisions-right\/\">How to Get Major Life Decisions Right<\/a>. My column explores one simple, yet not easy, question: \u201cHow do I make the right decision that will have such a huge impact on my life when it isn\u2019t at all clear what the best decision is?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There are no crystal balls in life, so no way to know what lies in the future. Attempting to predict the future is a largely frustrating and futile endeavor. You can only make the best decision you can based on the available information, some contemplation of the career and life you want to lead, and your present feelings. Also, recognize that this isn\u2019t your final decision on your career and life; you will have many \u201cforks in the road\u201d ahead of you and few are irreversible (except parenthood!). That should help put the decision in perspective and reduce its feeling of enormity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saturdayeveningpost.com\/2020\/02\/how-to-get-major-life-decisions-right\/\">My column<\/a> identifies six facets to consider when you are faced with a major decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Saturday Evening Post published my latest column, How to Get Major Life Decisions Right. My column explores one simple, yet not easy, question: \u201cHow do I make the right decision that will have such a huge impact on my life when it isn\u2019t at all clear what the best decision is?\u201d There are no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1533],"tags":[233,279,87,1403,1272,536,537,1258,137],"class_list":["post-14135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-saturday-evening-post","tag-decisions","tag-family","tag-happiness","tag-life-choices","tag-marriage","tag-priorities","tag-quality-of-life","tag-saturday-evening-post","tag-values"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}