In the course of your work you have inumerable decisions to make.

You need to have a philosophical basis to your decision making, which will help you make good decisions.

Form a set of principles and unless you have a good reason to do otherwise, follow your principles.

Group your principles into categories, which take different levels of seriousness.

1. Objectives - what you are trying to accomplish.
2. Values - the things that are important to you that you must not violate in accomplishing your objectives.
3. Requirements - the things you need in the way you want to accomplish your objectives.
4. Laws - the statements on how things work. These should not be violated.
5. Rules - the methods of how to do the things you are doing. Do not violate these unless you have a good reason to do so.
6. Guidelines - follow these until you find a better way and then change your guidelines.

By Andrew Weitzen, Bronze Inc. (c) 2010

Bronze is the publisher of several online Internet journals including: InternetHandholding.com, DomainNames.gs, DotNetNuke.bz, Programmer.bz, Software.vg, WebHosting.vg