Collective Deciscion Making

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Collective decision making

Bed of Nails

The war is over and we are preparing to move. The pre-war gray-green panel truck is nearly loaded and we will be leaving soon.


I am seven and am helping as much as I am allowed. I glance occasionally with concern at the partially water-filled glass bowl which is home to my silver dollar sized turtle. I feel, more than think, that someone will, or should, make a decision about my turtle.


Now it is very nearly time to leave and I carry the bowl to the old panel truck where my father is standing. "What should I do with the turtle?" I ask.


"Put it in the truck." my father says.


I see no place in the loaded truck for a bowl with a turtle in it. "The bowl will spill." I say.


"Empty the bowl and put it in the truck." my father tells me.


I do as I am told, but hold my turtle, still safe, in my hands. Now,somewhat fearfully, I again ask my father what I should do with my turtle


"Put it there." he points.


I look 'there.' Rusty nails. An open can of rusty nails collected to finish our new home. The nails are unfriendly, uncaring, lifeless. As I put my turtle on those nails, I know he will never see his home again.

Habit Affirmations

~ I am ready and willing to learn to be a better listener this season.
~ I am ready and willing to learn to better attend to the urging of the best within me this month.
~ I am ready and willing to learn to acknowledge that self is one with all this week.
~ I am ready and willing to learn to practice listening to the best within me this me this day.
~ I am ready to learn to decide this hour to meditate more regularly.
~ I am ready and willing to learn to act more promptly on my better insight this hour.
~ Meditation clarifies my mind through ordering my thoughts this second.
~ I am ready and willing to learn to consider this moment what I do to make a difficult decision.
~ I look at the information I have on hand with which to make the decision here.
~ I do what I can to get the information I need to make the decision now.
~ I make the decision as soon as seems good with the decision I have on hand here and now.
~ I keep the nature of my decision well in mind right here and right now.
~ I observe the results of my decision this year.
~ I lay-out the data, information, facts in a few simple sentences here.
~ I honor my feelings now.
~ I contemplate my three or four complete core sentences related to my difficult decision one at a time and all together this moment.
~ I describe my difficulty in making the decision in one short sentence now.
~ I am ready to learn to work through the problem area of a difficult decision by using the 12 Steps today.
~ I am ready to learn to re-frame the decision here.
~ I am ready to learn to drop the decision for now.
~ I am ready to learn to act lawfully right here and right now.
~ I am ready to learn to adjust my apprehension of the law this year.

Choice Affirmation

~ I make a good choice here. I make a good choice now
~ I have many alternatives from which to choose this season.
~ The choice is mine here.
~ A rainbow of choices is available to me now.
~I choose to decide what to this season.
~ I expect to decide what to do this season.
~ I am deciding that which I intend to do this season.
~ I have many options ahead of me this season.
~ I have many options and alternatives here.
~ I am ready and willing to decide what to do about references and citations here.
~ I am ready and willing to learn to let change in my life be based on conscious choice here.
~ I am ready to learn to better know the nature of a healthy productive decision here.