How to improve your decision-making and avoid train wrecks.
We would like to believe we can plan for most things. However, you don’t always have time to plan for a sudden and unforeseen event. If you make the wrong decision, it can be disastrous, or even fatal.
When something quickly happens, you must act. The wrong decision can be costly. It’s often fight-or-flight; the reaction that people have to a dangerous situation, that makes them either stay and deal with it, or run away: a fight-or-flight response. We become paralyzed, cease thinking, and our consciousness is overrun by fear and anxiety.
We don’t practice how to respond when faced with a threat. Yet, if we rethink how we approach adversity we have a better chance. Adam Grant, author of Think Again, notes in his research that, “Rethinking is a skill set, but it’s also a mindset. We already have many of the mental tools we need. We just have to remember to get them out of the shed and remove the rust.”
When lightning-quick and fluid actions are imperative, you need a highly retainable process that, with practice becomes instinct.
Therefore, if you truly strive for a deeper level of success in business or life practice these tested disciplines:
- Voices in your head: Quiet and manage the voices in your head. Don’t let them manage you.
- Instincts: trust only those that enable not disable
- Connector: empower new and unexpected options at your immediate disposal
- Execute: a speedy, dynamic, bespoke, adaptable strategy
Whether you are alone and confronted by an assailant or working and unexpectedly faced with a dilemma the key is to embrace a tried process you can execute under duress. I’m here to help you grasp this very important mindset. Reach out to me for more details.