JUDGEMENT
Setting your priorities and being cognizant of appropriate timing, places you in an advantageous position with the only remaining consideration being to deliberate between the one or the other.
Deciding on the chicken or the steak dinner is a personal choice based on what you feel like having that night and has little or no consequence. However, choosing between going to guns and not going to guns in a life and death situation could determine not only your survival but whether you spend the rest of your days behind bars.
In any tactical deliberation the price tag for failure is high—often life or limb. The higher the price tag the higher the priority and with time usually not on your side. Judgement is a matter of weighing out the pros and the cons to include the cost of each choice.
Either you control the threat, or the threat will control you. Good judgement places you firmly ahead of the action-reaction power curve by making sound “cost-effective” decisions.
Setting priorities is about choosing to be proactive, active or reactive, which means you’re already aware of the situation. Greater awareness affords you more time and opportunity to solve the tactical problem. Less awareness reduces your timeline and decreases your opportunities. Your timing considerations are equally as important as is your judgement in determining the price tag for failure.
Setting your priorities based on awareness, being cognizant of your timing and mindfully weighing out your options are what will, in both the long and short run, help you to choose wisely.
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