Also, if there's a topic you would like JC to address, let us know . Some great, some small. How you make these choices sometimes determines how you will spend the rest of your life, whether you will enjoy dinner, or if you should get a traffic ticket.
Decisions are an inevitable part of everyday living.
When several options from which to make a choice are available, and a selection is not made, then that in itself is a choice. In this particular case, all the options will fall away as time goes by until only one remains, or you might have made a conscious decision not to choose. At the end, the remaining course of action, whatever it is, may be neither the best one nor the one you wanted, but it is the only one remaining. The point is that you, the pilot in command, are responsible to make those choices, and make them early enough in the flight such that they are the best ones available under the present conditions. Just remember, though, that even the best choice, made under the best of circumstances, with the best and most complete information, with plenty of time, will not necessarily turn uncertainty into certainty.