Quick Decisions
A game warden
noticed how a particular fellow named Sam consistently
caught more
fish than anyone else, whereas the other guys would only catch
three or
four a day. Sam would come in off the lake with a boat full. Stringer
after stringer
was always packed with freshly caught trout. The warden,
curious,
asked Sam his secret. The successful fisherman invited the game
warden to
accompany him and observe. So the next morning the two met at the
dock and
took off in Sam's boat. When they got to the middle of the lake, Sam
stopped the
boat, and the warden sat back to see how it was done.
Sam's approach
was simple. He took out a stick of dynamite, lit it, and threw it
in the air.
The explosion rocked the lake with such a force that dead fish
immediately
began to surface. Sam took out a net and started scooping them
up.
Well you can
imagine the reaction of the game warden. When he recovered
from the
shock of it all, he began yelling at Sam. "You can't do this! I'll put
you
in jail,
buddy! You will be paying every fine there is in the book!" Sam,
meanwhile,
set his net down and took out another stick of dynamite. He lit it
and tossed
it in the lap of the game warden with these words, "Are you going to
sit there
all day complaining, or are you going to fish?"
The poor warden
was left with a fast decision to make. He was yanked, in one
second, from
an observer to a participant. A dynamite of a choice had to be
made and
be made quickly! Life is like that. Few days go by without our
coming face
to face with an uninvited, unanticipated, yet unavoidable decision.
Like a crashing
snow bank, these decisions tumble upon us without warning.
Quick. Immediate.
Sudden. No council, no study, no advice. Pow!