The Art of Decision-Making
Arriving at a decision just like art takes a lot of skills and strategies. A decision maker has to formulate ways to find and tread the path of least resistance.
Learning to decide is an essential skill in life. Everyday of our lives we meet situations that require decision-making. Be it as simple as choosing the color of your shirt to as complicated as deciding to marry a person.
Daunting as it may seem, decision-making is actually not as hard as it appears.
A word of caution though, the art of decision-making is not to be taken lightly. Every decision we make today affects or determines our fate tomorrow. To put it bluntly, what we are today is the result of an amalgamation of decisions in the past. Of course, it depends on how important the decision we are about to make is.
The most important thing to consider in deciding is to be clear in our aims.
What is the decision for? What is the end you desire? What is the purpose?
Knowing the answers to these questions make the decision easier.
When in doubt, postponing to make a decision is, in fact, a decision in itself. Taking time to make a decision is essential in order to gather facts clearly. To get things straight and to weight things carefully.
Once you decide then you should act on it. There is no point agonizing whether you’ve made the right decision or not. How can you tell if you won’t act?
Whatever you decide upon, it is important that you should be man enough to stand up for your decision.
If in the process you discover that you commit error in judgment resulting to poor decision then decide to change your decision.
That’s it!
The whole point of this exercise is a decision is needed to arrive at a solution. Right or wrong, deciding is better than not making a decision at all. There is nothing more pathetic than to be in a condition where you are continuously in the midst of struggles not knowing what to do or where to go. Once you’ve made a decision, the direction is clear. The path is paved. It is up to you to decide to continue following that path or to swerve to another direction.
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