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Making Decisions ... Quicker and Better
September 14, 2007
All serious daring starts from within.
-Eudora Welty
-Eudora Welty
- Learn to accept “good enough.” We all sometimes misuse our time and energy by trying to make the best choice. Ask yourself how significantly a choice will affect your life. The more minor and short-term the impact, the less time you should spend making the decision. The concept of “good enough” is difficult to embrace because it feels like you’re settling for mediocrity �" but “settling” often increases satisfaction.
- Deliberately reduce the options when a decision is not critical. Base your decision criteria on your past experience.
- Spend a lot of time and energy on a decision only if the extra effort can yield significantly better results.
- Make your decisions irreversible. Always wondering whether you could have made a better decision is a prescription for misery.
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Comments (1)
Displaying 1 CommentBloomington, IN, United States
WOW! what a powerful article!
As I get older (64 soon), I see these suggestions as true and ones to adhere to.
Although I wish at times I were young again, the lessons learned as one ages are indespensible--too bad we don't learn them when we are younger--and then again if we did, what would we learn from our experiences?
However, the above suggestions are truly golden and all should take notice. Whish I knew these things 30-40 years ago. Hope you young people out there can absorb and process those suggestions to make them part of your standard operating procedures.
Thanks for listening to an "old timer"!
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