Decision Making

You’ll often hear people complaining about making decisions, it’s likely that you have complained about picking between two things. But eventually you have to realize that we need to make decisions everyday and cannot get stressed out from making decisions. It’s a necessary thing people need to come to terms with.

• Decision making: The process of choosing between two or more things, or pick a course of action.
• Decisions are made based off either – intuition, reasoning or a combination of the two
• There are three types of decision making and you should try identifying which one fits you best:
• Consultative decision making: Involves getting input from others prior to making a decision
• Direct decision making: Meaning you make decisions on your own
• Consensus decision making: Refers to the idea of involving others and making a group decision together

1. Identify the decision at hand
2. Gather relevant information
3. Search for alternative solutions
4. Analyze the evidence
5. Pick which solution is the best

This is just a general format of how one can make a decision. It can be difficult trying to pick which solution may be best for you when making a decision. But it’s important to keep in mind that the best way to make a decision is to try picking based off your own personal values.