How many decisions do you make in a day?
The average person makes hundreds if not thousands of decisions each and every day of their lives, but have you stopped and considered what drives those decisions.
Most people will tell you that making a decision involves a selection between one or more options for something. In reality I think that it is a far more complex process than that.
Why is it more complex than that?
It is far more complex than that because making decisions is not just selecting between this option of that option and moving on.
Making decisions involves CHOICE,
Let me spell CHOICE out for you:
C – Constructing
H -how
O - obstacles/others/opportunities
I – Impact or Influence
C – Continuing
E – Engagement
CHOICE is informed by a lot of background that you may not even be consciously aware of when you are deciding between the options available to you. We will explore this further………… In part 2
So for now…… how many decisions do you think you make in a day and what do you think drives them? Let me know in the comments..
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Great post this will really help me.
glad you found the post to be useful…. keep an eye for parts 2 and beyond.
Thanks Dubiousma…… didn’t mean to upset your world…but……
I feel like I make at least 5, 379 decisions in a day but that may not be accurate. Most of them are split second and I don’t think any real thought goes into them…but now I wonder….thanks a lot, now I have to decide if I want to wonder if any real thought goes into my decisions!
I make so many decisions a day it isn’t even funny. Not only that, but my decisions could also kill people. Lots of people. The bigger issue is that people don’t want the responsibility of making the wrong decision.
Thanks Mepsipax, my professional life also involves many potentially life threatening decisions, particularly if making the wrong ones, there’s lot of issues around making these decisions, … I look forward to your comments as I get onto part 2 etc…
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