One choice leads to another.

The question might be what in all the universe is the greater good? What is it that is of the most worth? Which choice is right? What should one put everything one can into accomplishing?

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One good answer might just be "Whatever it is that you do, do well" but then if you did it would seem that your choices would be defined by your prior choices. This motive would create a direction.

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This is conference weekend. It has been good to have both Saturday and Sunday to hear from church leaders that have offered some guidance on living ones life, “better” and on seeing what is of the most value. I was impressed with the comments of Henry Eyring who was called as the new second councilor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. He attended a news conference with reporters mid day between the morning and afternoon session. One asked him to comment on the fact that he and two other general authorities recently called being from Harvard. His answer evolved into some comments about methods used to make decisions. He commented on the fact that within the church, at his level in particular, as they made decisions that all were heard from. He mentioned that what started at first as very different points of view evolved into a consensus but that even then if it was sensed that even one had not been heard from that no decision was made until all had expressed their thoughts and they had a consensus.

I guess he presented this approach in part as a contrast to what a traditional well-known business school might produce in terms of decision makers. Then too he may have suggested by telling this that conflict and dominance in "owning a decision" was not as important as whether the decision was correct or right or of the most worth.

Then today I watched a special on J. Ruben Clark mid day on the BYU channel. This man of course is a man I have had tremendous respect for. He was a brilliant man who became a very successful lawyer and played a significant role in the government in the first half of the last century. I remember his influence and his talks. He had never been a church leader until he was 61 years old when he was called into the First Presidency. When you look at his life you see that he often made his choices based on what he felt had the most worth rather than what was immediately the most worth to him.
Much to learn from men like these.