THE ART OF DECISION MAKING

 

Informed quality decisions will always save you from the cry of regrets.

Every day, every hour, every minute, every second a choice is made from enormous events available. Our choices may sometimes involve leaving others aside, but nevertheless, we make them. These choices form a significant part of our decision-making. Some decisions offer solutions to complex everyday problems while others offer solutions to simple everyday problems. Problems are events that usually appear to have no immediate clear path and so require a pause. While pausing, we think through the problems and choose between the available ways that lead forward (solutions). The choice we make becomes the decision we have made leaving others (like the economics scholars would call this the opportunity cost; the alternative foregone when the choice is made). This implies that making decisions involves leaving other choices aside.

Life is made up of the decisions we make. This is because, for every decision made and an alternative foregone, there are always repercussions that are either positive or negative. There are always myriad alternatives that make it difficult to decide. Someone once rightly said, “The hardest thing to learn in life is knowing which bridge to cross and which to burn.” It is a challenging task to make a decision that will not make us regret later. We may decide to do one thing and leave the other and up getting a result we never wished which puts us at a standstill. This leaves a mandate to us to learn how to make quality, informed decisions which do not come easy.

I one time had a friend who found it difficult to deal with me because I always take long to take a decision. In her mind, I should have been able to make a quick decision and I don’t keep anyone waiting. I really had to take a long to make a decision because I needed to project the results and find all the necessary information regarding the subject before I made a decision. Bad decisions can ruin life while good decisions create a eudaimonic life. For any serious decision, one ought to get the necessary information such that they can make well-informed quality decisions.

It is desirable that decisions are reached as early as possible, but is always paramount that it is well informed and of good quality. For one to make a decision, one ought to think hard about it, get all the information required, and then make a decision from an informed point of view. Don’t worry about taking too long to decide. One is to worry about making an uninformed decision that usually causes negative effects. The well-informed good-quality decision will come with no or less and manageable regrets. Make an effort to always take time to find enough information before making a decision.