How To Decide on the True Importance of a Decision

We take multiple decisions daily. Some small, some really important. How can we discriminate? It is quite simple actually – those that are important are those that have significant consequences. And often, long term consequences.

Reviewing the potential consequences of a decision is a good way to weight their importance and the amount of time and effort that needs to be spent taking the decision. It is an excellent way to discriminate where to put the emphasis.

Unfortunately we all encounter in our lives people that get that priority in reverse. They spend huge amount of time and effort agonizing over decisions that have very little consequences. And then, maybe out of exhaustion, they don’t consider properly those really important decisions.

Think first about the consequences of the decision you are about to make. Depending on those consequences, allocate the right effort to the decision.