How to make SMART choices

 Making Smart Choices

How to think about your whole decision problem: a proactive approach

Our decisions shape our lives. Made consciously or unconsciously, with good or bad consequences, they represent the fundamental tool we use in facing the opportunities, the challenges and the uncertainties of life.

 Making decisions is a fundamental life skill.

Making good decisions is one of the most important determinants of how well you meet your responsibilities and achieve your personal and professional goals. In short, the ability to make smart decisions is a fundamental life skill.

The need to make a difficult decision puts us at risk of anxiety, confusion, doubt, error, embarrassment or loss. Our discomfort often leads us to make decisions too quickly, too slowly and too arbitrarily.

You can learn to make better decisions.

We don’t know how to make decisions well. Few of us ever receive any training in it. The only way to really raise your odds of making a good decision is to learn to use a good decision-making process. One that gets you to the best solution with a minimal loss of trust, energy, money, and composure.

An effective decision-making process fulfills these six criteria:

• It focuses on what’s important
• It is logical and consistent
• It acknowledges both subjective and objective factors and blends analytical with intuitive thinking.
• It requires only as much information and analysis as is necessary to resolve a particular dilemma
• It encourages and guides the gathering of relevant information and informed opinion
• It is straightforward, reliable and easy to use, and flexible

 Use the PrOACT approach to make smart choices.

This book provides you with a straightforward proven approach for making decisions. It won’t make hard decisions easy. Hard decisions are hard because they are complex, and no one can make that complexity disappear. The eight PrOACT elements provide a framework that can profoundly redirect your decision making, enriching your possibilities and increasing your chance of finding a satisfactory solution.

To order your copy of thee- PrOACT book, email: ca.kannemeyer@gmail.com

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