The more bad choices you make, the less bad your choices seem.
The first step in making better choices is to simply be brutally honest about your own behavior to yourself. What are the choices you are making? How are you spending your time? What are you neglecting that you shouldn't?
How can a young person learn whether he chose the correct way? He thinks he has a special idea, and then he discovers that he is completely inappropriate for it.
You weigh your pros and cons and what's real. You want to play baseball? Yeah. You want to go to school? If that's the best option, than that is what it is.
Put your choices in perspective.
In life, you have to weigh everything up, even when they are just decisions about your career.
For me, it is always important that I go through all the possible options for a decision.
Every time you have to make a choice about anything, think Does this go toward or away from what I want? Always choose what goes toward what you want.