You’re struggling to make a big decision. What can you do to improve your skills?

Big decisions always involve alternatives, and every alternative has a varying degree of risk. This requires an objective assessment of the scenarios and playing out the downside risk of each scenario. This is where having someone to validate for any missing risk not factored becomes critical. If you do not have a sounding board, this would definitely lead to procrastination.

When facing a big decision, start by defining your ultimate goal and understanding why it's important. Identify your core objective, values, and priorities and how they align with your broader vision and passion. Consider the potential impact on your life and others. This clarity helps filter your options, allowing you to concentrate on choices that genuinely resonate with your aspirations and values. By establishing a clear goal upfront, you set a focused direction for your decision-making process, ensuring the paths you consider are both relevant and meaningful.

My opinion consider all the alternatives. Life is all about creating options. Decide, no second thoughts, move forward. You can't be afraid to make choices. In the long run, you make choices and learn from them. Not all are going to be winners, what do you do when you have made a bad choice? Get back in the game.

Prioritize, plan how to strategies the steps to take make it happen. If you have obstacles, overcome them and proceed with alternative methods

Seek feedback from trusted peers, mentors, or experts to gain insights and perspectives that can help you make more informed decisions. Understand ethical principles and frameworks to guide your decisions with integrity and moral responsibility. Keep a decision journal to document your decision-making process, including the factors considered, the options evaluated, and the rationale behind your choices. This can help improve your decision-making over time. actively working on these skills and strategies, you can become more confident and effective in making decisions, even when faced with complex or difficult choices.

After defining your goal, enhance your decision-making by thoroughly researching and gathering relevant, reliable data to assess your options. Seek out diverse sources of information, ask probing questions, solicit feedback, and consult with experts to avoid biases and ensure your understanding is current and comprehensive. Deliberately consider various perspectives, potential scenarios, and risks to ensure a well-rounded evaluation. This thorough approach enables you to make informed decisions grounded in a comprehensive analysis rather than assumptions or incomplete information.

Bei der Bewertung der Optionen kann man objektiv oder subjektiv vorgehen. Bei vielen Datenpunkten ist es einfacher eine objektive Entscheidung zu treffen, aufgrund von Vorteilen versus Nachteilen. Bei wenigen Datenpunkten und vielen Unsicherheiten wird die Entscheidung subjektiv ausfallen. Wir k?nnen die Zukunft nicht vorhersagen. Wenn Kognition und Analyse begrenzt sind und alle involvierten Personen unterschiedliche Aussagen trefen, dann entscheide nach deinem Full-Body-Yes. Du w?hlst die Option, bei welcher dein Kopf, Herz und Bauch "ja" sagen.

As a Marine Officer, decisions were expected and many often-involved life and death situations, so this is a topic I don’t take lightly. The most pivotal stage is ‘Evaluating Your Options’. Here's why it's a game-changer: (a) It forces you to think critically and creatively. (b) It encourages more than one perspective on potential outcomes. (c) It's the junction or crossroads of intuition and logic. To enhance this step: (a) Use a scoring system for each option based on your experience. (b) Conduct an old-fashioned risk-benefit analysis. (c) Simulate the outcomes mentally or through role-playing. Last, seek wisdom from a mentor. Mentors can help with clarity and foresight that’s hard to find when you’re facing the decision alone

Once you gather all the information, you must be decisive, decide, and commit to it. The more you hold off on making a decision, the more you will live not in the present moment but in the future. Whatever new information you learn in the future, you can adjust in the future. Life success is a learn-as-you-go process. There will always be adjustments. Remember to live in the present moment.

Whatever your decision is, be confident with it by taking action. With confidence, you tend to put in more effort with your actions. Whatever the outcome is, the result will tell you where you should learn and grow. However, you would not know where to continue learning and growing without action. As a result, it will be difficult to move forward.

Sleep over it. It’s a highly under-rated skill but extremely important for difficult, complex decisions. The anatomy of our mind is designed to handle such decisions when we let it be processed in our sub-conscious mind. This concept is beautifully explained in a book called “The Power of Sub-conscious mind”. Give it a read if you’d like to know more ir just sleep over it :)

Look at what's in your and others best interest and once you are sure at a gut level or in yourconscious, just go for it. Delaying decision has a cost, as you never start your journey. No matter how hard it is, take a call, if you delay tje problem will eat you up

Erg?nzend zum darüber schlafen, kannst du auch einer kreativen oder entspannenden Aktivit?t nachgehen. In dem Moment, wenn dein K?rper aus Fight-or-flight rauskommt, kommen Informationen, die im Unterbewusstsein gespeichert waren an die Oberfl?che des Bewusstseins.