Decisiveness: Quality 1 of N of Successful Entrepreneurs

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Being decisive is a cool and very important quality.

It requires energy and you to face fears of being wrong or even to look stupid.

It takes guts to be decisive but there’s no success without decisiveness.

It is an important quality not only in business but also in personal life because decisions unstuck you.

You decide which road to take and that makes some of the problems irrelevant and other ones more relevant and that is a good thing.

It’s better to solve issues that are right in front of your eyes rather than spend time and energy fixing things that might or might not happen in 1 year. In programming terms this is called premature optimization.

It’s good to look ahead but not too far ahead and only when it really makes sense.

Many books state that we have a limited pool of energy that we can use for decision per day. Every decision takes some of its contents. With the new day that pool gets replenished.

Even micro decisions take mental energy e.g. what clothes/socks to wear, what to eat for breakfast, do you want to drink tea or coffee.

To simplify this you can have rules to improve the decision making process.

… read the rest on the Orbisius blog


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