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 spending
time, by looking at advantages and disadvantages and follow following ten life savers that will ultimately lead you to making right decision.
1.Beware of over- reliance on instinct Gut feelings suggest we know 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 down information in some systematic way, such as 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 about choice with someone else, allowing more time for deliberation or adopting relaxation methods such as breathing deeply several times to calm you at 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 know full consequences of a decision. So most choices are based on our guess about probabilities – 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.
