FIVE WAYS TO OVERCOME INDECISION


Choose NOW. (picture from pixabay free stock photos)

Choice making scenario [background]
Most of us are familiar with the helplessness of having to choose from many options. At those times, we realize how the presence of so many options create confusions and disables our ability to act. For example, a lady has to choose just one dinner gown from a classic boutique. She feels bedeviled by the very many well-made gowns so she keeps fondling one gown to the other for the next three hours.

A fresh graduate gets employment offers from four different companies, one a university, the other a pharmaceutical company, the next at the embassy and the last at the multinational engineering company. How does he choose from this plethora of options? You see, the very presence of choice has almost become a curse.


(source: pixabay free stock photos)
Why is choice making difficult?
The irreversibility of choice situation make choosing difficult and dreadful. We realize that just by a single choice we open the door to a whole sequence of both predictable and unpredictable events. By choices we walk down career paths never to come back to another. Through choices marriage bonds are made without hopes of reversibility. Therefore in choice situations humans become immobilized and scared.

In summary we are uncomfortable with choice making because of:
Choice making can be like entering a door, you can't quite say
what's behind.
  • Irreversibility of choices
  • Uncertainty of outcomes
  • Association among events
  • The incompleteness of human knowledge
  • The inherent imperfection of things ; forcing trade-offs


How to make choice making easier and less distasteful
These are five proven ways of getting along with choice situations
  1. Gather as much facts as possible about your options
  2. Have a written personal statements of goals and values
  3. Select an option that best match your personal statement and has less trade-offs
  4. Act
  5. Accept the outcomes and improve on them


Further considerations:
choice making can be less distastful (Pixabay.com)
  •  It is helpful to realize that one may never get the ‘perfect option’
  • Making a choice is not always disastrous.
  • Wrong decisions can be remedied
  • Do not be overly focused on the possibility of ruin
  • Act even if you are scared; take calculated risks.


Chinedu Eze with Omotola Oyeyemi, 2018.

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