The challenge of making decisions…

While decision making is known as the mental process that allow us to select an action among several options, it’s never an easy task.

Every decision making process produces a final choice that can involve an action or just an opinion.

Yet, decision making is often surrounded by fear, uncertainty and impossibility to see clearly into the future, which makes the process stressful, murky and can often lead to regrets and disappointments.

One of the rule of engagement is to honestly learn from their consequences but not become obsessed when they turn out to be bad. Good decision making is either the product of intuition and / or reasoning; it also requires sufficient information, but not too much either.

The more people are involved in the process, the more complex and time-consuming it becomes. Finally, emotions play a huge role in making a good decision and it’s difficult to always keep a clear head.

From experience, it also seems to me that the more decisions one makes, the better they tend to be and the more their process is likely to become quick and instinctive. Granted, they aren’t all guaranteed to succeed, but on the whole, more will be good than bad.