You potentially create lurking monsters. If you got feedback from every decision instantly, you could probably handle it easier than having to make choices for which the consequences could be far-reaching and unexpected.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\nIf thorough front-end decision-making is a key success behavior, and you can easily get sidetracked, can you train yourself to make them quicker, better, and more thoroughly across your life and work? Sure.<\/p>\n
The most all-encompassing approach would be to do whatever you need to do to gain a greater sense of self-worth, giving you more confidence and reducing the fear of making mistakes. But perhaps the most significant short-term factor in ensuring consistent decision-making is increasing your discomfort with not doing it. If you raise the bar internally with how much ambiguity and lack of clarity you are willing to tolerate, you\u2019ll find it much easier (necessary, actually) to just get on with it. We spend thousands of hours holding a focus for our clients to make hundreds of thousands of decisions that have been pending in their psyche and their world\u2014from random papers on their desk to key issues distracting their consciousness. They would not have allowed those to linger had their comfort zone not tolerated them.<\/p>\n
How do you raise your standards about indecision you\u2019ll tolerate? Become conscious of the inventory of choices you haven\u2019t made, but need to. Realize that executive time and energy must be committed to expedite the process, and discipline yourself to empty your inboxes regularly. Commit to bigger results that require an intelligent allocation of your limited resources. And practice, practice, practice… until you get so accustomed to the energy you experience with a clear deck internally, you just won\u2019t allow the nagging lack of choice to linger.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not always the actual work that is the hardest part of a job and success\u2014it\u2019s the decisions, compromises and choices that need to be made.<\/em> \n\u2014Barbara Abrams Mintzer<\/em><\/p>\n[Note: This essay appeared in David Allen\u2019s Productive Living Newsletter. Subscribe for free here<\/a>.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If thorough front-end decision-making is a key success behavior, and you can easily get sidetracked, can you train yourself to make them quicker, better, and more thoroughly across your life and work? Sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,1,32],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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