None of us knows what is going to happen in the future. And yet we are constantly making decisions that are based on what we think is going to happen in the future.
I was talking to a client today about how they should structure their companies (they operate a charity and a trading company). The answer lies in what they want to achieve, and to work backwards from there. The answer may be wrong, but the premise they base the decision on will be right.
When faced with a difficult decision, I learnt a long time ago that the best way of deciding was to toss a coin, having decided what to do if the coin lands heads up (it works best if there are only two possible solutions!). The hard bit is to listen to the little voice in your head that tells you whether you are glad, or sorry, with the result. Rather than go with the coin, always trust your gut reaction to the result.
This would suggest that we know what to do all along; it’s just that too often other factors crowd our thinking, making decisions harder to reach.
Even in business, unless there are compelling reasons to take one course of action over another, there seems to be a lot of sense in going back to the reasons why you are in business, remembering what you want to achieve, and start from there.
Tags: Decision, future, success
November 19th, 2009 at 3:51 pm
Coin toss worked for me – Thanks Ed !