I need more time

[pitzerwm]

First rule of decision making: More time does not create better decisions.
In fact, it usually decreases the quality of the decision.
More information may help. More time without more information just creates anxiety, not insight.
Deciding now frees up your most valuable asset, time, so you can go work on something else.
What happens if, starting today, you make every decision as soon as you have a reasonable amount of data?


Compliments to Seth Godin's Blog

 

[Bubbles Galore]

So...perpetual action is key?!? There is a lot of truth in that statement, at least for me.

 

[rph9168]

No doubt. I know there are times I have over-thought things and usually made the wrong move. Although I still am not a fan of snap judgements I think that most decisions should not take long to figure out.

 

[pitzerwm]

Check out a book call Blink, Gladwell's premise is that your internal knowledge enables you to make quick decisions. Its an interesting book as Outliers is also very interesting, Pat Crowe sent me a copy because I said that I hadn't read it. Once I started it I couldn't put it down.

 

[Waxman]

I started reading Outliers and got distracted; I intend to get back to it.

I think it's important to learn to trust your instincts when you're in business.

 

[Dean Taylor]

When you have to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

Indecision is debilitating; it feeds upon itself; it is, one might almost say, habit-forming. Not only that, but it is contagious; it transmits itself to others.

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over!