{"id":1443,"date":"2011-11-09T13:43:18","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T13:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidcprice.wordpress.com\/2011\/11\/09\/everydecisionmatters"},"modified":"2011-11-09T13:43:18","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T13:43:18","slug":"everydecisionmatters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/davidcprice.com\/everydecisionmatters\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ubw5N8iVDHI?version=3&#038;rel=0&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=0&#038;iv_load_policy=3&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=1&#038;hd=1&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Every. Decision. Matters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I posted that phrase earlier on my Facebook page and started thinking about  it more.\u00a0 Do you realize the truth of this?\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure any of us do.\u00a0  I think we feel like many of our choices are essentially in a vacuum.\u00a0 I  don&#8217;t know that that&#8217;s <em>ever<\/em> true.<\/p>\n<p>Usually, even the small  choices we make have some kind of affect on any number of other people  in our lives&#8230;even the insignificant ones (choices, not people).\u00a0 Even  if the choice seems as if it will only affect us, think about how many  people YOU affect.\u00a0 So, if a decision affects you, it in some way, small  or large, <em>changes<\/em> you, therefore, impacting how you interact with those  people with whom you have influence.\u00a0 Make sense?<\/p>\n<p>Reading some of the <a title=\"Washington Post\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sports\/colleges\/joe-paterno-ignored-his-moral-responsibility\/2011\/11\/08\/gIQAIGcm1M_story.html?hpid=z4\">stories<\/a> surrounding the sex scandal at Penn State brings that point home so  clearly.\u00a0 While this assistant coach is the one who did the dirty deed  (understatement!!), look at how far reaching it&#8217;s impact is, to the point that  the storied career of famed coach Joe Paterno will probably come to an abrupt and tarnished end very soon.\u00a0 This wasn&#8217;t his choice.\u00a0 Or was it?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If the accounts are to be believed (and it&#8217;s hard to see how they aren&#8217;t), Paterno had knowledge of at least <em>some<\/em> of what was going on.\u00a0 Did he report it?\u00a0 Seems so.\u00a0 Did he <em>stop<\/em> it?\u00a0 Apparently not.\u00a0 He made a choice&#8230;a decision, and that decision  will probably cost him his career.\u00a0 Worse, though, that decision led to  the ongoing abuse of kids who desperately needed his help.\u00a0 He chose to  look the other way for reasons we can only guess, but are probably  pretty evident.\u00a0 He chose&#8230;poorly.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Every decision really does matter.<\/p>\n<div class=\"attribution\">(<span>Source:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/<\/a>)<\/div>\n<div class=\"twttr_buttons\"><div class=\"twttr_twitter\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?text=\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-via=\"\" data-hashtags=\"\"  data-size=\"default\" data-url=\"http:\/\/davidcprice.com\/everydecisionmatters\/\"  data-related=\"\" target=\"_blank\">Tweet<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every. Decision. Matters.\u00a0 I posted that phrase earlier on my Facebook page and started thinking about it more.\u00a0 Do you realize the truth of this?\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure any of us do.\u00a0 I think we feel like many of our choices are essentially in a vacuum.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know that that&#8217;s ever true. Usually, even&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[84,131,326,332,410],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3jKZO-nh","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4496,"url":"http:\/\/davidcprice.com\/alone-in-an-airport\/","url_meta":{"origin":1443,"position":0},"title":"Alone in an Airport","date":"October 7, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"I don\u2019t often travel alone. Actually, when I fly, I\u2019m usually alone but I don\u2019t fly as often as I used to. 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