Success, Personal Growth - 6 Tips For Making Better Decisions


by Kevin John - Date: 2007-07-11 - Word Count: 679 Share This!

The ability to make quick and definite decisions is one of the keys to success. The opposite of decisiveness is procrastination, the greatest thief of your time. You need to constantly tune and develop your decisions making skills to make faster and better decisions. How do you measure up against the 6 tips in this article?

You must banish indecision and procrastination form your life. Every time you put off a decision, you waste time thinking about it and loose opportunity that you could have had if you made a quick decision.

Here are 6 tips to help you become more decisive and make better and faster decisions.

1. Do not let yourself be easily influenced by the opinions of others. It is true that you should make informed decisions, but it is also true that only you can make the decisions about situations that are important to you. Other people's opinions are just that and no more.

You will find it easier to make decisions if you don't devote a lot of attention to other people's opinions or even worse, your fears about what they might think if you make a decision.

Remember that they are not you. Their needs and perceptions of the situation you are in are different to you.

2. Only get advice from a very few people that you trust. Sometimes you will need to get help in looking at your decision from another perspective. When you need to do this find someone, or at most a handful of people, who can help you to review the decision that you are going to make before you make it.

They should be people with a good understanding of what you are trying to achieve and preferably with experience of success in the situation you find yourself in. These people will often not be close friends and relatives, rather they will be people who are trying to achieve similar things to you in your life.

3. Let your actions do the talking. One way to avoid the flood of opinions and negative comments that often accompanies a decision is to make the decision and then get on with it.

The actions you take and the results you get will show them what you have decided. And if it does not, wait until you are confident in the outcome of your decision before telling them.

4. Recognise when you don't have the knowledge to make a good decision. Making quick decisions is very important, but sometimes you just don't know enough to make a good decision. Learning to recognise that "you don't know what you don't know" will help you to make better decisions. Set yourself a timetable for acquiring the knowledge that you need, don't permit yourself to spend a moment longer on gathering information than you need.

Then make that decision!

5. Be resolute in your decisions. Once your decision is made, stick by it. Don't go and make a different decision 5 minutes later. All you will do is end up hopping from one fad to the next, never making any real progress.

Of course you must recognise that you made your decision with the best knowledge available to you at the time. With hindsight you may realise that you may have overlooked something important and eventually you may have to reconsider your decision. But don't rush to do so. Be prepared to put some effort in to following through with your decision.

6. Write down your decision. Write down why you made the decision and what it was in a notebook or somewhere where you can refer back to it later. That way you can keep your decision in front of you at all times and remind yourself why you made it.

Being decisive is important for success. Procrastination will steal your time and waste opportunities that are in front of you. If you put into practice the 6 tips we've discussed in this article, you will become more decisive and make better decisions. Your journey to success in your endeavours will be shorter and easier.

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