How good are you at decision making? What’s the importance of decision-making skills in your life?
Decision-making is something that has the potential of making a huge impact on all areas of your life, so it’s a question well worth pondering.
Decision making in your business life
Why is decision making important? It’s because it affects every area of your life.
Let’s start with your job or career. The higher you move up the corporate ladder, the more responsibility you get. In turn, that means that you have to make more decisions, make them quickly, and of course make the right choices.
When we look for in anyone in a leadership, the importance of decision-making skills is critical. Improve your decision-making skills, and you improve your chances of moving up into a leadership position. That should mean more money, and potentially more job security (provided you keep making great decisions).
You can see more reasons for the importance of decision-making skills in business at mdtraining.com
Importance of decision-making skills in your personal life
Now let’s look at your personal life. The decisions you make there also have a significant impact.
Choosing the right spouse can have a massive effect on the years to come. So does your choice of where to live and what house to buy for example. It will impact your children (depending on how good the school systems are in your town), and of course, it will affect your net worth as real estate values go up or down.
What will happen in pivotal points of your life will depend on your ability to stick with strong decision-making. Deciding to face your fears and making your own decisions will enable you to accomplish more in your life, both in small and big things. This will affect your self-confidence as well and with that your own ability to take decisions.
See how completing a little project will rise your self-confidence and engage your decision-making skills at the same time. For more, check my free 30 days self-confidence challenge.
The long-term impact of small decisions
But it isn’t just the big decisions that have a big impact on our quality of life. It’s also the small stuff, like picking the right foods to eat that stop you becoming overweight and adding to your health risks. It’s also making or not making little everyday purchases that can either lead to a mountain of consumer debt or a sound and secure financial future.
Smart decision-making is the skill that will affect definitely your overall life quality both in short and long term.
The importance of decision-making skills: You are deciding everything
Do you see how good decision-making has an impact on just about every area of your life? For example, the decision to use your time wisely will determine how much free time you have. Time for activity and fun with loved ones or enjoying your favorite hobby.
But the most important thing is that even when you don’t decide (for instance when you are overwhelmed by choice overload), you are making a decision: the decision to let time passing, and let things unfold as they are doing.
Not deciding is the easiest and worst way to lose your personal power: don’t let it happen.
Importance of decision-making in life: examine your decisions, craft your future
I encourage you to examine the decisions you’re making right now (both big and small) to find out how your skills are measuring up. Then challenge yourself to become better at decision making in general. There’s a lot you can do to learn to make better decisions and to make them in a timely fashion.
Don’t you owe it to yourself and your loved ones to give yourself the best possible shot to craft the life you want?
Getting good at making the right choices is a big part of that and this is finally the true importance of decision-making skills. Check my article on developing your decision making skills for more.
It is especially important to learn how to make quick decisions, Learn more on this in my article: Discover How to Make Quicker Decisions – A Faster Decision-Making Process
An essential point in dealing with your decision making ability is managing your decision fatigue. This is a core point that, if not understood and managed, will mine the quality of all your decisions in your daily life. Just click on the image below and subscribe to my free 5 day Overcome Decision Fatigue Challenge.
Decision fatigue It is a well known phenomenon that we are going to cover in my next post about programmed decision-making and explore in greater detail when we’ll discover how to deal with too many choices in your day.
See you next time!
Mark
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