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Evaluate the ideas after you have been thinking.  There might be different options and you have to decide which is the best for you.  Think, for example, about employment.  The possibilities are many: It is not only about employment or self-employment.  You could have two part time jobs, you could have a part-time job and part time self-employment, you could be self-employed part of the year and part of the year be employed, etc. What is the best option for you?

Three simple ways to make decisions are proposed:
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In the first one, you just write the ideas and give some votes to each idea (between 1 and 5)

​You can do something more elaborated by choosing some criteria for each idea and voting it.  In the downloadable document the criteria are Impact (how much impact the idea can have), easy to implement (how easy is the idea to put in practice) and cost (how much does it cost).

​In the third case, for each idea you think about the benefits and disadvantages in the short term and in the long term.

"Having a Christian worldview shapes my decision-making with respect to all aspects of my life. I always respect people in public life who are principled, and those principles have to be connected to something. And my faith is what serves as the anchor and directs my actions"   John Thune