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How to Make a Decision and Make It Right

Here’s the simplest way to make the right decision.

When you make a decision, commit to "making it right."

It’s one thing to make a decision. It’s quite another to commit yourself to making sure that it’s the right decision.

Back up your decision with commitment or make another decision.

Here’s why this is important.

Most models of decision-making talk about gathering information. This means that before you commit to the decision, you do research, homework, or due diligence.

Then you draw conclusions and make your decision.

However, even the most diligent information gathering will likely never have enough time, resources, or opportunity to gather all the possible information.

Regardless of the nature of the decision, you will always have an incomplete picture because the future is uncertain.

Therefore, at some point, you either gather more information indefinitely or make the best decision based on the available facts.

What makes your decision the right decision is your commitment to follow through regardless of the inevitable glitches along the way.

Make any decision of consequence and you will encounter glitches. In fact, the bigger the decision, the bigger the glitches!

Your commitment is what overcomes the glitches and, therefore, makes your decision the right one by "making it right."

I have observed that certain personality types struggle with this idea because the "commitment" to which I refer is often contrary to the logical mind.

This is because the commitment to "make your decision right" it is not based on facts. Ultimately, it is based on your own self-confidence that you can deal with the inevitable unforeseen circumstances that accompany any decision.

Yet, without this commitment, you will likely never make the decision "right."

So here is the paradox that makes decision-making more of an art than a science.

You can gather information and evaluate it logically. However, you can’t do the same with commitment.

And commitment is the essential and often indispensable part of decision-making that makes a right decision turn out "right."

Despite all the logical models of decision-making, commitment is rooted in feelings of self-confidence and personal empowerment.

Logic helps you make the right decision.

Commitment empowers you to "make it right."

© 2007 Tony Papajohn

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