Like me do you also believe that? I strongly believe making a decision is the most challenging and crucial step to start anything.
Though I met many people who had a strong will, desire, want & feel to achieve many things in life, but what to do was a struggle although they had many options in hand.
Once you decide WHAT, you can easily find HOW.
Don’t get confused here with the goal. A goal is a purpose, but to accept that as a purpose or as a goal and start moving in that direction will be based on your decision.
Why do people take the time to make decisions? As a specialist in emotional skills, I observed people are not ready to be accountable for the repercussions of that decision. And that’s how fear of those repercussions stops them from deciding anything. In these circumstances, people generally look for assurance from others about their decisions. So that if anything happens, they can easily pass that credit onto them. Nobody wants to take ACCOUNTABILITY but everybody wants CREDIT ( me me me).
These are the basic factors due to which people not able to make decisions
Confidence
Fear of failure
Accountability and responsibility of their own actions
Assurance from others
Social pressure
Financial pressure
The first and most important thing is CONFIDENCE. If people are not confident about their own decisions, they keep juggling between thoughts till the time the objective is achieved or stable, especially when decisions are based on anybody else’s influence, guidance or suggestion. Life of that decision is very short.
For making any decision, confidence and trust is a must.
Decisions based on confidence and trust are the most successful decisions because here people put all their efforts to make it happen. To give up your own decisions is not easy & gives birth to consistent effort.
Here you can’t make others responsible.
Even I observed that 80% of people take more time to decide when they are in a comfortable situation and when they have multiple options to choose. People decide quickly when they are surrounded by critical situations.
So, to decide something its very important to narrow down the options. And if you want to do something and you are not able to decide, imagine your self in a critical situation, and you will be able to decide.
Many successful people like Steve jobs decided and started ventures in critical situations only.
I know many people who wanted to start a venture for many years but they couldn’t. They couldn’t decide to start, the reason being that they didn’t want to be accountable for their own actions. Doesn’t matter how good the idea is. The most important factors of making decisions are confidence and accountability or ownership.
Be bold to accept accountability of your own actions.
Not sure about your own decision, best to take help from experts instead of looking assurance from friends, colleagues or relatives.
Only 20 % people make decisions confidently and with ownership. And those people become successful leaders as well. Decision-Making power is one of the most important skills in achieving leadership qualities, which is based on confidence, trust, and ownership.
One can’t initiate anything till the time a decision is taken.
Enhance decision making power skill as it’s a minute need for all those who are handling responsibilities. At times decisions look small but their impacts may last long.
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