How Decisions are Killing Your Chances of Reaching Your Goals
If I give you the option to choose between a simple way to pursue goals and a complex way, which would you choose? I’m guessing you would choose the simple way.
The simple way to pursue a goal is to remove as many decisions from the process as you can. This means creating a master plan that includes as many daily, weekly, and monthly routines as possible.
On the other hand, the complex way to pursue a goal is to create a temporary plan, then periodically decide what to do next. For example:
- Should you wake up early tomorrow to put in extra work or sleep-in to recover?
- Do you need to meet with a mentor to get advice this week or should you wait until next week?
- Should you travel to that event next month or spend more time preparing and go to the next one?
The problem with the complex way is that complexity decreases your chances at success. Every decision you make is in the vacuum of your current emotions. Furthermore, making emotional decisions will kill your chances of reaching your goals.
When you have a master plan, you force yourself to make these and other decisions up front. Bed time, wake up time, travel, mentor check-ins, deadlines, milestones, and how you will measure progress are all predefined and put on a schedule. Doing this is hard, but it does make life simple once it’s done.
With this in mind, don’t let emotional decisions kill your chances of reaching your goals. Instead, decide once with a rational mind and then execute.