Knowing This One Simple Thing Could Help You Make Decisions FAST

We've all been there. Stuck making a decision.

Your mind spins like a hamster wheel over which choice is the right one.

Now not only is this mental exhausting (poor hamsters) but it's a time-drain. And if you are in business, indecision can be costly—stalling a decision could cost you clients and money.

So what's the issue, why do we find it so hard to push ahead and nail our colors to the mast? Someone said to me recently that the hardest decision someone makes is the FIRST decision. So true. How many times do we stall so as to avoid a decision? But once we make it, the momentum follows.

Whenever you're at a crossroads, just remember that indecision is a decision. Making a choice is better than not making one at all. If you made the wrong choice, you can always course correct.

Now don't for one minute think I am advocating rash decision-making. Nobody should jump into decisions without weighing up the cause and effect of one decision over another. But after awhile, spending too long mulling it over is a decision in itself.

What I try and do is: weigh everything up, think it over and then act.

Don't paralyze yourself with indecision. Though some decisions can be frightening to make—what's scarier still is not choosing because you are frightened of making the wrong choice.

I'm not alone with this approach, these Expert CEOs have a thing or two to say on the matter:

"Make a decision. You fail it, fine, make it fast, and then go to the next one," says Hamdi Ulukaya, Founder, and CEO of Chobani. "The worst part is, you wait too long to make a mistake, and then you will wait too long to overcome the mistake. We all make mistakes, that's part of life. If you don't, you're not living."

"I force decision-making," admits the CEO of Delta Air Lines, Ed Bastian. "I think inertia is a disease within corporations. It can grow quickly and it can slow down... organizations need to move at the pace of the market, not the pace of their internal bureaucracies."

"You have a choice, you either make a decision and you go with that based on the facts that you have at hand, or you don't make a decision, which means you've just decided to leave things as they are. Sometimes that decision is the worst decision you can make," says UPS CEO David Abney.

Do you agree? Don't dilly-dally, let me know in the comment section below!

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