Decision Life Savers

Written by Kavit Haria


When it comes down to crunch time, what will you do? How will you make a decision, and what will you base your judgement on? Its make-or-break time – what will you do, and more importantly, how will you do it?

Have you ever been framed into a moment when you had to make a decision and it was a really tough one too? You spent long time thinking about it and it drained you out?

Well next time, try spendingrepparttar time, by looking atrepparttar 129316 advantages and disadvantages and followrepparttar 129317 following ten life savers that will ultimately lead you to makingrepparttar 129318 right decision.

1.Beware of over- reliance on instinct Gut feelings suggest we knowrepparttar 129319 right choice to make. Instinct is usually best used, though, when you have plenty of facts and information. Some decisions are ‘counter intuitive.’

2.Write it Down Since many decisions involve juggling with lots of facts and feelings, making sense of them in your head can be difficult, if not impossible. Writing downrepparttar 129320 information in some systematic way, such asrepparttar 129321 pros and cons, may improve your handling of some choices.

3.Stress Warps Judgement Strong feelings or potentially serious consequences can seriously distort decision-making. Find ways to reduce stress through, for example, talking aboutrepparttar 129322 choice with someone else, allowing more time for deliberation or adopting relaxation methods such as breathing deeply several times to calm you atrepparttar 129323 point of decision.

4.Clarify Time Scale Many choices do not require an immediate decision. You frequently have time to allow more information to be accumulated before deciding. It is not being decisive to rush into a choice when more reflection or information might produce a better result.

5.Simple statistics improve some choices We rarely knowrepparttar 129324 full consequences of a decision. So most choices are based on our guess aboutrepparttar 129325 probabilities –repparttar 129326 chance of something occurring. The human desire to make sense of things and see patterns where perhaps none exist can lead one astray. Simple statistical methods can aid many decisions.

Top Ten Procrastination Busters

Written by Kavit Haria


Procrastination is one ofrepparttar most popular problems amongst people. They want to do things, but they just can’t be bothered to get them done.

Have you ever been in a position when you had to do something, but just never got down to it?

Was there a time you had to do a school/college assignment, but never got round to it tillrepparttar 129314 night before, or even, never got round to it at all?

Well – that’s procrastination!

Why are you leaving it till late?

What benefit are you getting out of that?

Are you really helping yourself by doing that?

What can you do about it? But, more importantly, what are YOU going to do about it?

Here are my top ten procrastination busters. Put them into practice, and they’ll do you wonders!

1.Clouded Vision - Get a Grip

Step back. It's time to look atrepparttar 129315 forest. What exactly are you trying to accomplish? Sometimes we get so caught up inrepparttar 129316 detail we forget where we're going.

2.The Task is Overwhelming - Break it Down

The biggerrepparttar 129317 task,repparttar 129318 more we need to definerepparttar 129319 natural milestones withinrepparttar 129320 task. Want to lose 100 pounds. Go for 20 pounds, five times! Need to cleanrepparttar 129321 garage? Break it down to North, South, East, and West. Or divide it into tasks that can be done in a certain block of time (15 minutes, 2 hours, etc).

3.Fear ofrepparttar 129322 End Result [Breathe deeply, acknowledgerepparttar 129323 fear, and then takerepparttar 129324 next step]

Sometimes we're afraid we'll fail; sometimes we're afraid we'll succeed. The outcome isrepparttar 129325 same: fear of what will happen when we're done scares us so much we don't work at it. Fears are like small children. They yell loudest when they feel they are not being heard. Once you acknowledge them, they usually quiet down. Breathing deeply allows you to go pastrepparttar 129326 fear intorepparttar 129327 next step.

4.The task is unpleasant or boring. – WHY are you doing it?

You hate to clean, but love living in graceful surroundings. You hate to do laundry, but love your family. There are many tasks or chores we do that we don't like to do, but are necessary to liverepparttar 129328 life we want to live. Focus onrepparttar 129329 bigger picture and get reasons.

5.Indecision - There are no wrong choices!

There are very few things that can't be undone or done again. Can't decide what color to paint, so you let your walls remain stained and grungy? Pick three colours. Start withrepparttar 129330 lightest. If you don't like it, go on torepparttar 129331 next.

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