Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Deciding Once:

Michael Cooch’s post about decision making is valuable:

By “deciding once” I mean to do all of your homework, weigh the risks and alternatives, get yourself to the point of making a decision - and then decide to decide once. Once you’ve made your decision, resolve to no longer let your mind scramble on whether you made the right decision or not - just move forward with all of your energy and 100% commitment. So much time and energy is wasted on reconsidering your decisions after you’ve made them; you are better off just deciding once and being done with it.

Now, I’m not suggesting that you foolishly go in one direction forever just because you decided to many years ago. You should set some sort of time frame and milestones that make sense to base an evaluation on (13 months?), and then commit like hell until you reach your evaluation point and then make another decision…once!

Nothing you will ever do is totally perfect. There is always doubt, confusion, ambivalence and second guessing. Let all those thoughts flow by you. Once you make a decision, live with it for a while, thirteen months is a good a number.

Decide Once!