Advice On Making Decisions

Notes on Effectively Confronting and Defeating Indecisiveness

✨ Make your decisions on paper. Get them out of your head, and into the external world. Write.

✨ Take your decisions seriously. Be indignant with the idea that you don't take your own thoughts, ideas, goals, decisions, as seriously as you take those of others. Learn to take orders … from yourself.

✨ Regard your choices as final. "This is the decision I've made, and if this is a mistake, this is a mistake I am committed to making." You can (and should) adjust your methods and your action steps, but do not second-guess your decisions, nor your goals.

✨ When there's no clear, single right choice, be willing to flip a coin ... and to regard that outcome as firm, decisive. A coin-flip isn’t arbitrary … it’s a decision machine for matters of equal weight. Respect the outcome.

✨ Do not second-guess yourself. Do not overthink ... once you've done the requisite thinking to make a decision, do not revisit the process unless there's a substantial change in the situation, or important new information.

✨ Strategy: Never walk away form the site of a decision without taking one specific action toward the achievement of the goal.

✨ Strategy: A powerful method of externalizing/making decisions objective? Use accountability partners!

✨ Finally, take morality seriously. This includes taking your own thinking, and your own decisions, seriously. This is what integrity looks like. And this is what success looks like.