decision making

How To Effectively Make A Decision

September 18, 2019Ayobiojo Mayowa

What is decision making

Decision making is the process of choosing a right and effective course of action from two or more alternatives for the purpose of achieving a desired result. Decision-making is the essence of management.

“A decision is an act of choice wherein an executive forms a conclusion about what must be done in a given situation. A decision represents behavior chosen from a number of alternatives.”– D.E Mcfarland.

There’s a single mental move that turns the Dark to Light, which is called decision – Bob Proctor

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step – Lao Tzu

From the quote above, you should understand that D.E Mcfarland, Bob proctor and Lao Tzu have a good understanding of decision making

Any great decision originated from the mind, which then translate to flesh. The initial step is rarely physical. It is completely mental. The initial step is a decision. A choice to submit. A choice to act.

Therefore, One decision can change your life

Making right decisions at every stage of life is very important.

As Bob Proctor puts it, it is a mental move that can change your Dark situations into light(favorable).

Research shows that we make about 35,000 decisions daily. Now and again those choices can be little and unimportant, and once in a while those decisions are life changing. Eventually, however, the result of your day, your year, and your whole life are generally characterized by the amount of dynamic and the moves that you make with the decisions

There’s force in settling on a decision – in any event, when you’re not totally sure that it’s the correct one. I guarantee you that once you understand the unimaginable effect that settling on choices can have, you can genuinely start to carry on with your best life.

Having said that, what then Is a decision??

What is a Decision

The word decision comes from a Latin word called “dēcīsiō” and it in a real sense, it signifies “to cut off”. By settling on a decision, we viably cut out any remaining prospects. We make them unavailable. Eliminate them from the condition.

What then is Decision making

Decision making is the process of making decisions
But let’s be sincere
Decisions aren’t easy

Decisions can be amazing, yet they aren’t in every case simple…

To a certain extent, practically we all experience the ill effects of decision loss of motion eventually as expected. Understanding the effect that your decisions can have is regularly terrifying.

All things considered, if a choice is sufficiently significant to transform you, it’s reasonable that you’d need to make certain to hit the nail on the head.

The issue is that numerous individuals have a “deer in the headlights” second when confronted with decisions. Terrified of settling on some unacceptable decision, they end up not settling on a decision by any means. Be that as it may, not settling on a decision is a choice all by itself – and it’s quite often some unacceptable one.

The powerlessness to settle on a decision can leave you frozen completely still when changes are vital. It can likewise unleash devastation on your certainty, your satisfaction, and your generally speaking passionate prosperity.

Confronted with the issue of decision loss of motion, it’s fundamental to understand that – in pretty much every case – any decision will be superior to no decision by any means.

On the off chance that you can push past the dread and questions related with dynamic, you can begin assuming responsibility for your life’s results.

What’s more, as Lao Tzu reminds us, you can’t push ahead without first settling on a choice.

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Problem of Indecision

The most difficult part of our lives is deciding who we choose to be and how to go about it. Although, If  you are observant enough, you will find out most of us tend to be very positive with the way we picture our future. This is to say we dream big believing we can attain a very specific goal at a point in our lives. However there is this common stumbling block we always come across during this process and that is the “Act of indecision”.

The cost of indecision is very expensive because the time wasted during the course of indecision and procrastination can’t be regained. However the good news is you can still make it right with your decision today. I mean to decide who you want to be ,who you really are and to make that extra effort to back your decision, because without the effort we are still locked in the chains of procrastination.

So it is time to get over the problems of indecision for enough time has been wasted already so now it’s time to decide and push for who you really are.

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 Reasons for Indecision

1) Unavailable Resources:

We fear because we do not have enough resources to back our decisions, so we become lethargic when deciding. But the bitter truth is the moment you make a decision and push for that which you have decided to be, regardless the available resources you have, then  it takes you half closer to reaching that goal. But instead we choose to wait till we have all our resources sorted out.

2) What if I fail ?:

This question has brought fear to a lot of people who could be living their dreams if only they had the courage to face the fear of failure. Remember, failure has a role to play in every successful story, so don’t bound yourself to the fear of failure.

3)People Discouraging People(pdp) :

For every man who wants to live a dream, he will come across lot of people in this category. Some will say to you ” Oh man! I like your dream but there’s no way you are achieving it”.  So are you going to allow the opinion of potential gems who lost their dreams to fear and what other people told them to jeopardize yours?.

4) Unclear Mindset :

This is the major problem that puts you in the risks of indecision .Because you are not sure of who you really want to be and you have doubts as to what really you want to achieve. As a result your you begin to face the problem of indecision.

If this happens to you and you don’t do something to correct it ASAP , you might just lock yourself to the cell of indecision.

        How to effectively make a decision

Below are 6 valuable tips that will help you effectively make a decision

1. Settle on your decisions quickly.

Perhaps the most ideal approaches to wipe out choice loss of motion is to settle on choices rapidly. Truth be told, large numbers of the world’s best trend-setters and pioneers owe a lot of their prosperity to their capacity to settle on choices rapidly.

At the point when you settle on choices rapidly, you rule out uncertainty, stress, and disarray. Rather than sitting around stressing over the entirety of the prospects and attempting to interminably investigate each likely result, settling on a speedy choice empowers you to quickly start giving your endeavors to finishing on that choice.

In the event that you genuinely focus on a choice, you’ll see that finishing on it is a lot simpler than you may have suspected.

The Law of Attraction directs that you will actually want to show what you need to finish on any choice once you have completely subscribed to it.

Simply by settling on choices rapidly, however, can you completely focus on them directly out of the door without letting uncertainty and stress kill your choice gradually after some time.

Fortunately, settling on choices rapidly doesn’t need to be troublesome. Regardless of what choice you may be confronted with, the lone thing you need to decide is whether this is something you need or need and whether it merits submitting your opportunity to.

On the off chance that the response to both of those inquiries is indeed, you have all you require to settle on a choice immediately. Some other inquiries or worries that you may have will answer themselves en route in the event that you are focused on settling on your choice a reality.

2. Utilize the Rule of 5

After you have decided and prioritize what you need. The following stage is to carry that choice to realization. It’s insufficient to just settle on a choice and pray fervently. A choice is possibly completely put forth when you devote your attempts to it.

The Rule of 5 is an incredible spot to start to help finish on your choice. Adhering to the Rule of 5 methods completing five things consistently that will carry you nearer to your objective. Suppose, for instance, that you choose to go into business. After you’ve settled on that choice, you ought to focus on completing five things every day that will assist you with getting your business ready for action. They don’t need to be fantastic assignments. Significant objectives are cultivated each little advance in turn, which is the reason the Rule of 5 is so compelling.

Selecting a responsibility accomplice is another extraordinary method to additionally focus on your choice. It is difficult to retreat from a choice when you have somebody that you regard and trust pushing you forward and considering you responsible.

3) Get rid of self-doubt :

If you do not get rid of self-doubt you won’t be able to make a clear decision. Because it definitely means you are not even sure what you are really capable of, therefore wasting valuable time for you to implement your decision.

So if there’s anything you need to get rid of; it is self-doubt because you need to believe you can be who you really want to be.

4) Turn deaf hear to PDP:

When making a self decision concerning your dream or potential goals, it is important to know people will try to discourage you. However it is well within your right to ignore them for no one sees the dream more than the dreamer.

5) Improve your mindset :

The most powerful tool a man have is the mindset because it can either make or break you. However it is important to know that you are who you believe you are. Therefore, if you are going to make a decision today, you need to have a positive mindset about it because it’s only through a positive mindset you can overcome the problems of indecision. Remember  “As a man thinketh so is he”.

6. Imagine Your Goals Daily

Picture, in your psyche, what your life will resemble and how you will feel whenever you’ve achieved it. Imagining your objective thusly will fill in as a ground-breaking help by giving you a feeling of the advantages before the objective is refined.

In the event that you make strides, for example, these to focus on a choice and spur yourself to finish, you can set yourself up for progress after any choice you make.

 

In conclusion

Decision making is a skill that can be learnt and developed. Deliberately make decisions and plans for your life. You can change your life with this one skill. I charge you who is reading this to make that positive decision today, stop killing your energy with self-doubt and indecision. You can be who you decide to be if you believe and work towards it.

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