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Do you wish you could make better decisions? Do you realize that effective decision-making is a skill that you can learn? Once you start using Tony Robbin's simple decision-making steps, making good choices will get easier. If you have put off big decisions you know you need to make, this is a must-read for you. It's time to create your outstanding future one decision at a time.
The Power Of Effective Decision Making
Anthony Robbins "Rapid Planning Method" Time of Your Life Program
Every decision you make either rewards or denigrates the quality of your life. How different would your life be if you could change a few decisions? Unfortunately, you can't change the past, but you can take control of your choices now. Tony Robbins RPM program will teach you how to make decisions that empower your ultimate goals, follow an effective plan, and produce results, but it requires you to make decisions. You will train your brain to make decisions consciously by asking three questions; What will I focus on? What does this mean? What am I going to do? Slowing down to answer these questions will allow you to control the direction of your life.
There are usually four reasons you put off making decisions; fear, uncertainty, lack of practice, or feeling overwhelmed. The older you get, the more you fail and the more afraid you become of making more mistakes. Eventually, the fear of failure is enough to stop you from even trying. The only absolute failure is the decision not to try again when you fail. Of course, to make the best decision possible, you will want to know with certainty what the outcome will be. However, the only way to see the result is to decide. Instead, you must make the best decisions based on the most significant probability of success. If you wait for all the traffic lights to be green, you will spend your life in your driveway. You will never be 100 sure, but the only way to make better decisions is to make more of them. When you make bad choices, it will teach you to make better decisions faster. Finally, prioritize your options by their importance to your goals. Use a calendar to map out when you will do what, eliminating the false belief that everything is due now. The progress towards your outcome will fuel your desire to continue. Making decisions is the only way to make progress.
The four decision-making rules are to write them down, know what you want and why, play the probabilities, and prioritize the most valuable decisions. If you keep decisions in your head, then they will die. Writing down our choices makes it easier to focus on and finish them. Spend whatever time it takes to make your outcome so clear that a three-year-old would understand it and your purpose of powerful that you are willing to sacrifice for it. Base those decisions on the highest probability of progress toward your goals. Finally, make decisions that provide the most value to your outcome. Prioritizing your choices will save you from burnout because the little wins are vital to your success, and you will begin to see the finish line.
Now I want you to make a decision using five simple steps:
- Write down an outcome you want to achieve. Chances are you have a result on your mind that you have been putting off. Use the S.MA.R.T. tool to ensure you are clear about your outcome and why it is crucial.
- Create at least three choices to accomplish your result. The power principle states that one option is no choice, two are a dilemma, and three are a choice.
- List all the pros and cons of each option. Arrange your preferences by the pros outweighing the cons.
- Brainstorm ways to mitigate your cons. Can you turn them into pros?
- Choose the choice with the highest probability of success.
You now have made a practical decision. You will be closer to your outcome and ready to make another good decision upon completion. How would you solve a problem in a crisis by making good decisions? Some high-pressure situations can force us into a fearful state and cause us to make poor decisions. In those situations, add four steps to your process before using the same six-step method you already know how to use. First, remember you are a resourceful person. Focus on the solution, not the problem. The problem will only bring fear, but the answer will bring hope. Lean on a mentor who has overcome this problem before. A mentor does not have to be someone you meet in person. Google is a powerful resource that connects us to information from around the world. You are not facing a unique problem. Someone somewhere has overcome it before and can provide you with examples. Calm your mind and remember when you overcame a similar situation. If you solve that, you can solve this. Always believe there is a way to the solution, even when you can't see more than one step at a time. Next, identify the problem as it factually is. Sometimes we make issues more prominent than they are or minimize how big of a problem something is. Both thinking processes are dangerous. You can only solve the problem with a complete understanding of what the problem is. Next, write down your outcome well beyond this situation. Your life is more than this problem; spend time visualizing your fantastic future. Finally, write down a list of resources and constraints. The solution you create will use some resources but must stay within the limitations. Having a list of both will help you navigate your decisions easier.
The only way to be successful in business is to make a series of a lot of decisions. Some of those decisions will be bad, and some will be the best you have ever made. If you can learn from your bad choices and recreate your good decisions, you will hit every goal you aim for. Use Tony Robbin's effective decision-making method to examine and improve your skills. Remember, practice makes permanence, so make a decision today.
Works Cited
Robbins, Anthony. "The Power Of Effective Decision Making" Rapid Planning Method, Robbins Research International, 2017. pp. 159 - 170
