Why It's Important To Make Good Decisions
One big difference between people who are more successful and people who are less successful is their daily decisions. For both groups, the decisions they make on a daily basis impacts their education, their careers, and their lives. This is why it’s so important to have good decision making skills.
When you make good decisions, you make choices that benefit you. You make choices where the benefits outweigh the risks. You make choices that save you money, especially in the long run. You make decisions that improve your health, not harm it. You make choices that preserve your mental health and emotional well-being, and you stick with them. By making these decisions, you increase the quality of your lifestyle.
The hard part is figuring out the differences between wise and unwise decisions. Sometimes it’s obvious, and sometimes it’s not. Based on my experience, the best way to fine tune your decision making skills is to learn from your own experiences and the experiences of others. As you go through life, you learn from your experiences, specifically your successes and your failures. Not everything is a 100% success or 100% failure; most experiences are mostly one or the other, and some are almost an equal amount of both. From your experiences, you can reflect and see what worked (and try to replicate that) and what didn’t work (so you can adjust it for next time).
Learning from other people’s experiences is a good way to build your decision making skills. By learning about other people’s lives, their careers, their successes, and lessons learned, you benefit from their experience without having to live through it yourself. For young people, it’s invaluable. That’s why it’s so important to have mentors who are in the field of your career path or people who are going down the life path you aspire to walk towards. Their experiences give you insight.
Making good decisions may be a hard skill to learn, but it’s worth the time, effort, and heartache it takes to sharpen that skill. When you make wiser decisions, you make better choices for yourself, your life, and the people in your life.
Roderick Conwi writes about personal and professional development at Nourishment Notes. He is also the author of The Procrastinator's Quick Guide To Getting It Done. To get powerful insights to enhance your day, join his FREE newsletter.
