How to make decisions ??

Decision making is very important skill in our life. In my opinion, it takes precedence over intelligence and hard work. A good decision will make your life easy and a bad decision miserable. So now questions comes , how to make sound decisions ?

In this article , i would go through a simple example where you need to make a decision in a day to day life. Lets say you planned to go to US open tennis final this evening . You made a proper plan to complete your office stuff by 4:00PM and leave the office. Everything is going as expected till 3:30PM , but at that time your boss comes to you and ask you to help somebody who is struggling on a production issue and need to make and Emergency bug fix. You know that you cannot solve the problem in the next 30 minutes. You need to make a decision now whether to help the struggling person or go to see the final.

This situation sounds very simple but happens very often in our day to day life. What should we do now ? Should we sacrifice our interests to help someone ? Typically people try to explain the situation to their boss and convince them. But very often people end up working on the EBF thinking about the final , which itself leads to another EBF !!!

In my opinion , there is no single solution to this situation. We need to take up every situation as an independent problem and dissect it to find out what really makes you happy. Actually there is catch 22 situation here. You need to make a decision which makes you happy. And sometimes your happiness depends on what decision you make. So how to come out of this loop !!!

We can come out of this loop very easily if we have clarity of thought on some of the fundemental truths in life. Happiness can be created in whatever we do. If you take interest and give your 100% in whatever you do, happiness gets generated automatically. Decisions once taken and executed cannot be altered. You have to act on your prior decisions.

So basing on above fundamentals , and going by your intuition , choose what makes you more happy : helping others or watching tennis. Once you decide , give your 100% on that decision and try to generate happiness on the new track.

The solution sounds very simple just like the situation. But it is very difficult to implement it . You need to practice it regularly to get the feel of it. Once you master it , you can forget it because a new character encoding pattern is formed in your new genes and now your intuition knows what you want.