Lif Life Case Analysis

We learned from the Uhl-Bien, Schermerhorn, and Osborn (2014) textbook that “optimizing decisions give the absolute best solution to a problem (p. 197).” Also, Uhl-Bien et al. (2014) states that “satisficing decisions choose the first alternative that appears to give an acceptable or satisfactory resolution of the problem (p. 197).” When analyzing these two types of decision making choices for real-life situations where I had to make decisions, I have come to the realization that the most important decision that I had to make was deciding in the beginning of the year of 2006 to attend college for the first-time at the age of forty-nine years old. Let me explain how I used the optimizing decisions and satisficing decisions in my real-life situations.
In the fall of 2005, I was informed by previous husband of twenty-six and half years, that he wanted a divorce. After several months of marriage counseling and separation from each other for months, my husband made the ultimate decision that he wanted to live a different life without me. Divorces are examples of real-life situations that happen to different people for the good and the bad reasons. In this case for me – a good reason, after walking out the divorce court room in January 2006, my life changed, and now it was up to me to change my life for the rest of my living years, possibly alone. The optimizing decision that I made was the “absolute best solution to a problem (Uhl-Bien et al., 2014, p. 197)” of being now divorced was to register for the first-time as a Corporate and Continuing Education (CCE) student, at the time in 2006, was at Palm Beach Community College. Registering for the first CCE course was my satisficing decision to get my foot inside the door and inside the college classroom without ever having to worry about anyone else, but