Without decisions, we would become paralyzed. Every action we take is motivated by a decision.
When we wake up in the morning, we decide whether to get up or stay in bed. If we decide to stay in bed, we roll over and go back to sleep. If we decide to get up, more decisions have to be made like what to do first and in what order. You get the idea. When we have made all these decisions often enough and the results have been satisfactory, they become a "routine" much like a macro instruction will pull in a whole series of instructions for a computer program.
Many decisions are inconsequential. When there are many options such as whether to drive or take a bus, as long as either will achieve your purpose of getting you to a desired destination, the decision is not important. There may be some questions of safety, economy or efficiency which may also be considered.
More important decisions, naturally, require more information and more precision in answering the questions which must be asked and answered satisfactorily before a conclusion can be reached. Even under these conditions, the decision itself may not be as important as the commitment to the decision. Without commitment, a "decision" is indecision and doomed to failure.
Often there are no right or wrong decisions that can be made. Then, the choices are among "good, better,best" or "not good,worse, very bad". Even then, the choice must be made. When the choices are among the decisions on the bad side, count on criticism from people who have never made tough decisions because they never had the responsibility or the guts to make them.
Serious decisions are usually made on a "risk reward" basis. Since certainty is nearly impossible to achieve in most decisions, unless you are fixing a horse race, the reward must exceed the risk by a substantial margin. Sometimes an unknown but often reliable factor enters the equation. Some kind of intuition or what has been referred to as a "gut feeling" is the deciding factor in case of a tie.
Nothing can destroy your well-being and happiness quicker and to a greater degree than having important issues hanging without a decision. Almost without exception, some decision will win out over no decision. The secret is to commit to it right or wrong.
When we wake up in the morning, we decide whether to get up or stay in bed. If we decide to stay in bed, we roll over and go back to sleep. If we decide to get up, more decisions have to be made like what to do first and in what order. You get the idea. When we have made all these decisions often enough and the results have been satisfactory, they become a "routine" much like a macro instruction will pull in a whole series of instructions for a computer program.
Many decisions are inconsequential. When there are many options such as whether to drive or take a bus, as long as either will achieve your purpose of getting you to a desired destination, the decision is not important. There may be some questions of safety, economy or efficiency which may also be considered.
More important decisions, naturally, require more information and more precision in answering the questions which must be asked and answered satisfactorily before a conclusion can be reached. Even under these conditions, the decision itself may not be as important as the commitment to the decision. Without commitment, a "decision" is indecision and doomed to failure.
Often there are no right or wrong decisions that can be made. Then, the choices are among "good, better,best" or "not good,worse, very bad". Even then, the choice must be made. When the choices are among the decisions on the bad side, count on criticism from people who have never made tough decisions because they never had the responsibility or the guts to make them.
Serious decisions are usually made on a "risk reward" basis. Since certainty is nearly impossible to achieve in most decisions, unless you are fixing a horse race, the reward must exceed the risk by a substantial margin. Sometimes an unknown but often reliable factor enters the equation. Some kind of intuition or what has been referred to as a "gut feeling" is the deciding factor in case of a tie.
Nothing can destroy your well-being and happiness quicker and to a greater degree than having important issues hanging without a decision. Almost without exception, some decision will win out over no decision. The secret is to commit to it right or wrong.
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