How to make any decisions quickly

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-07 22:45

The Effectsomer technique helps you gain the determination to simply take action. And already in the process, you can always unmistakably understand whether the decision was correct or not.

Once I was faced with a choice: move to Moscow or stay in Yekaterinburg? This question was posed by my supervisor. The alternative was this: if you stay, you have to quit; if you move, you will still be demoted. The choice was complicated by the time limit. The manipulative director demanded an answer during the day.

After the first shock passed, I rushed to call my friends and ask for advice. Everyone advised differently, but I understood only one thing: they all advised themselves if they were in the same situation. And I needed an answer that was right for me. I really wanted to make the right decision. My wise friend was the only one who advised first to get rid of the time limit, and then calmly think about the question.

Then I went to the manager and said that I needed time to think, and if the answer is really needed now, then it is "no". When I have time to weigh everything, it can be positive. It turned out that the management valued me more than I expected. I was given a week. It was already possible to do something with this.

Once upon a time I read the book "Advice to the manager". There was an interesting technique called Effectsomer. I'll talk about it another time, if procrastination does not completely defeat me.:) At the end of the description of this technique there was a paragraph on how to make a choice based on it - you need to balance the situation.

Balance is an accounting term for account balance. Usually the difference between income and expenses.

I divided the leaf into four parts. On the left, I wrote the pros and cons of the current situation (or the situation to stay in Yekaterinburg). On the right, I wrote the advantages and disadvantages of moving to Moscow (I did not like this city then, and there were a huge number of disadvantages). Only when I wrote all the pros and cons, next to the written paragraph, put down the importance of this criterion for me on a 100-point scale. How negative or positive emotions I experience or will experience when each of the listed criteria is real.

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Then, when the work was completed, all that remained was to summarize and calculate the balance.

So in one evening I realized that the benefits from the move would actually be greater for me. I was just completely confused, because my sixth sense told me a completely different solution. Anyway, in the morning I got up with complete confidence in my decision. The rest of the week I just got things in order before leaving. It so happened that I didn't need it for thought.

The method does not take into account intuition. But it helps to gain determination to just start acting. And already in the process, you can always unmistakably understand whether the decision was correct or not. And then adjust the situation in the direction you need. After all, there are no decisions made irrevocably.