Decision making is an important part of our lives both personally and professionally. Sometimes we make decisions that are done hastily and without much thought. Then there are decisions that take careful planning along with individual steps that lead up to making an sound and effective decision. Through the course of this paper I will share with you my personal experiences with decision making models. Doing my time employed as a logistic manager with JB Hunt Transport we used a decision making model called simulation modeling. This program allowed our companies managers to experience and test out new products and services without disrupting the flow of the day to day operation. This system would prove to very beneficial long term to the operation. Without the use of simulation modeling the testing of these services would have to be done real time and wasted driver hours. This could have created customer service failures and enormous amount of loss wages and productivity. The success of this process was directly the result of this model. My thoughts of decision making models will continue to be favorable. My final experience of using a decision making model was when I was 17 years old. It was the beginning of my senior year and my mother was discussing my future after high school. She asked me to write down three things that I would like to do after graduation. I only could come up with two which was college and the air force. We sat down and discussed the positive and negatives of both and the end result I selected the Air Force. In closing as discussed in class there are several decision models available to help each one of us make sound decisions regarding both are personal and professional