HOW TO MAKE GOOD DECISIONS

The decisions you make in life and the way you made them are the keys to your happiness. So, it is most crucial to learn this most important of all life skills.

I have developed an easy ABC method to simplify the process for you.

A = Analyze

It is essential to think before making any decision. To avoid over-analysis or analysis paralysis, we should restrict ourselves to only 2 principles when analyzing our choices:

1. Satisfy, not maximize. Strive to achieve a good enough or adequate result or outcome, not the best possible one.
2. Know your priority. Make the decision that will satisfy your main objective, not those that may serve other purposes.

B = Blink

Trust your first impression, your instinct or intuition and your past experience of having made successful decisions under similar circumstances.

C = Create insights

Deliberately think in a contrarian, unconventional or alternative way to trigger spontaneous and sudden moments of total clarity while considering your options.

Practical Execution of the ABC Decision-making Process

When you use each of these 'A', 'B' and 'C' elements, you may find that the choice you make after each stage may be contradictory or inconsistent with those after the other stages. When that happens, it only means that your decision-making process is still incomplete.

You will know that you have made the right choice only when it can consistently satisfy the requirements of all three 'A', 'B' and 'C' stages at the same time.