The tactic may seem counterintuitive, but it can help you make tough decisions faster and with more confidence, says decision coach Nell Wulfhart.
Life is filled with big decisions. Should you move across the country? Start a business? Have a baby? Break up?In her over 10 years as a decision coach, Wulfhart has helped more than 600 people, from CEOs to artists, make difficult choices. She says nearly all her clients are able to find clarity within an hour of working together.In her experience,"most people take way too long to make decisions. They get mired down in the analysis," she says.
Then when you're making a decision, go down the list and see which one of your options checks more boxes on that list of values. We decided she should stay in her current job, save money and start working very hard at building her own business, so that in five years she could actually have the thing she wanted.The decision-making business is really just the regret-minimization business. And because my big thing is about getting people to make decisions faster, we just have to accept that yes, occasionally, we will regret our choice.
We are just taking our best possible guess at the time with the information we have. Sometimes that thing is not gonna work out. It turns out your new boss is a micromanager or your new apartment has rats. You say that asking too many people for their advice can actually make it tougher to make a choice. Why is that?
If you know you are talking to somebody whose values are different from yours, who doesn't respect the way you live your life, or who always has negative things to say about your choices, do not talk to them. Make the decision and then tell them that's what you've decided to do.
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