Decision Making Process: 3 Decisive Traps!

Become a confident and decisive action-taker!

The decision making process is usually laid out in 3, 5, or 7 steps and they are always some version of: clarify the question, collect data, evaluate options, make decision, get feedback and course-correct.

Yawn.

If you're a middle manager whose main priority is to justify your actions if shit goes wrong, and to stay safe and inside of the guard rails then this kind of decision-making process if fine.

But if you want great results, if you want outlier wins, if you want confidence in taking the big actions that lead to big rewards (whether that's in business, your marriage, or anything else that matters to you in life), then you should watch this video for a taste of the power you can get from learning how to be accurately decisive in your life.

[joemelton]

I think good decisions mostly come from being free to make them. When you peel away the layers, humility and confidence are the same thing. When they are real, they are indistinguishable. We're all wrong once in a while. Confidence is certainly not to insist you are right in defiance of the obvious. Humility comes with the acceptance of your limitations. When you can easily and naturally do that, you can also freely acknowledge your strengths and count on them appropriately. False humility and false confidence are also the same thing. They deny you the freedom to be right and wrong. Good decisions are not rigid. They must be free to flow. One of those decisions is to persevere for just cause, in the face of certain failure, or believing in the possibility of success. The surface of decision making is less important than the underpinnings of it. Isn't most of life comprised of claiming the freedom to be our best selves? To claim that freedom, you must claim your failures and learn from them. Failures are amazing! Be proud of them! It's far more important to be proud of your failures than proud of your successes. But to do that, you have to learn from them. Let your learning be mighty. I don't know if I'll last more than about a year or so (worsening health issues), but I have claimed my life every step of the way. Being one of billions is freedom. Being one in a million is to be a slave to ego. A slave is never free to make good decisions. An inflated ego separates us from one another. What a sad state! The freedom to be right and wrong helps us to escape our judgment of others. Being judgmental of others always comes from poor judgment of ourselves. It puts us in a situation where we have to be right, to maintain that separation. An inflated ego is always a broken ego. Not a good way to live your life. Hold yourself to high standards. Be as accepting of others as you possibly can. Be as encouraging as you possibly can. You love others as you love yourself. There's no escaping that truth. Stop judging. Be free to be wrong. Find the important components of the decision at hand, brush away what is insignificant. Give it your best shot. One thing that helps is to ask yourself what you are serving. We have a tendency to hide our agendas even from ourselves. What impact will you have on others? There is nothing in this world worth giving up your clear conscience. Happiness comes from feeling good about yourself. You do that by doing what you know is right. There is no escaping that.