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“One lives a good life through making good decisions and continually going to that place in you where you find your good.”

—The Good Decision Project

The Next Democracy

Given the critical times we are in this Project has proposed a very short, succinct body of language to re-introduce the idea of democracy to the 21st Century. We no longer can afford to compete for points on the scale of mutual hatred. We must find language that addresses the critical stress point of democracy in our world today. Click below, read, comment and do a pre-vote if you see something to which you can commit.

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  • The Nonsense of Good

    “Good” is a universally used word in our English language, but with such wild range of meanings that the word good in itself verges on being  a nonsense word.  One person starts a chess program for impoverished children and calls… Continue reading

  • Authority and Authenticity

    For many people, depending on their experience with ‘authority’, authenticity and authority are  in conflict with one another.  When these two terms are in conflict inside a person, life can become challenging and stressful.  A central purpose of The Good… Continue reading

  • Cruelty and Good

    In the challenge of developing this model I have had to resist the temptation to define ‘goodness’ in terms of specific behaviors or values.  But that said, the realities of the world around us require I deal with those actions… Continue reading

  • Guns and Good

    These past few weeks have showcased the pathetic and the tragic. A young man with a head full of childish fantasies carries a powerful lethal gun over state lines to a demonstration/riot with the idea that he would protect the… Continue reading

  • The Limits to ‘Good’

    The structure of The Good Decision relies heavily on an assumoption of the goodness of human beings, but that assumption alone can be dangerously naive. For the purposes of The Good Decision (TGD) process I am  trying to address that… Continue reading

  • Scorn, Anger, and Common Threads

    Everyday I go through the New York Times searching for decision points in American public policy and culture. The columnist David Brooks interests me in that he feels no compulsion to feel more or less conservative than he actually is… Continue reading

  • Carl Jung, Good, and Sense of Good

    I could as well have hyphenated Sense of Good, but rather I have used the three words in the first Pause as a proper noun to shift the reader’s mind a bit. A friend and reader of this model sent… Continue reading

  • Why The Good Decision

    Why The Good Decision in this time? Initially this decision model was built for human service professionals who had to make decisions about benefits and eligibility. Later I developed versions for churches and finally a national insurance/financial services organization. In… Continue reading

  • Dear Reader

    I am reaching the point where I would call this the first finished draft. Though I have worked and trained The Good Decision in a variety of workshop settings, putting it out there for a general audience has required significant… Continue reading

  • Robert Jahner

    In the course of 35 years being privileged to play minor role in the Disability Movement and then being a consultant to organizations trying to match their work to their mission language I became aware we as individuals and as… Continue reading

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