How to make difficult decisions: 3 ways at all times

You sit in a restaurant and flipping through the menu. All meals look so delicious that you do not know what to choose. May order them all?

Surely you have encountered such problems. If not eating, then what else. We spend a lot of time and energy trying to make a choice between equally attractive options. But, on the other hand, the options may not be the same, because each of them is attractive in its own way.

After making your selection, you get up in front of the new selection. It is an endless series of important decisions cause fatigue and the fear of wrong choice. These three methods will help you to more effectively make decisions at all levels of life.

Crank habits to avoid household decisions

The idea is that if you zavedet habit of eating salad for lunch, you do not have to decide what to order in a cafe.

By developing the habits that relate to such simple household affairs, you save the energy for making more complex and important decisions. Also, if you get used to breakfast salad, you will not have to spend the guts of the fact that instead of lettuce not eat anything fatty and fried.

But this is predictable affairs. What about unexpected decisions?

"If - then": the method for making unpredictable

For example, someone constantly interrupts your speech and you are not sure how to react to it and whether it is necessary to react. According to the method of "if - then" you decide if it will interrupt you two more times, then you will make him a polite note, and if it does not work, then a rough form.

These two methods are helping to take most of the decisions that confront us every day. But when it comes to strategic planning issues, such as how to respond to the threat of competition, in which products to put more money where it is possible to reduce the budget, they are powerless.

This solution, which can be delayed for a week, a month or even a year, hindering development of the company. They do not deal with the help of habit, and the method of "if - then" too will not work here. As a rule, such questions are not clear and correct answer.

Often the management team draws such decisions. It collects information, weighing the pros and cons, he continues to watch and wait for the situation, hoping that there will be something that will point to the correct decision.

And if we assume that there is no right answer, if it helps to make a decision quickly?

Imagine that you need to make a decision in the next 15 minutes. Not tomorrow, not next week, when you collect enough information and not a month later, when negotiations with all those involved in the issue.

Do you have a quarter of an hour on it to make a decision. Proceed.

This is the third way, which helps to make difficult decisions about long-term planning.

use time

If you have researched the problem and realized that the options for its solution equally attractive, admit, that the correct answer does not exist, set yourself a time limit and just select any option. If the test is one of the solutions requires minimal investments, select it and confirm. But if this is not possible, choose any, and as soon as possible: the time you spend on useless thoughts, can be used in the best way.

Of course, you can not agree: "If I wait, the right answer may appear." Maybe, but, firstly, you are wasting valuable time waiting for clarification of the situation. Secondly, the expectation causes you to procrastinate and postpone other decisions associated with it reduces productivity and slows the development of the company.

Just make a decision and move on.

Try it now. If you have an issue that you have been putting off for a long time, give yourself three minutes and do it. If you like you too much, write a list and set the time on each decision.

You'll see, with each decision you'll feel a little better, decrease anxiety, you will feel that moving forward.

So you choose a light salad. It was the right choice? Who knows... At least you eat, not sit hungry over the menu with dishes.