How to Make Hard Decisions
October 3, 2006 by Glenn
Should I find a different job? Should I start my own business? Should I stay in this relationship?
It can be hard to make decisions like these. Many guys try and use a logical approach: listing the pros and cons, doing a grid analysis, or putting on different “thinking hats” to look at a decision from different perspectives.
Steve Pavlina tried to use those methods and always found the final decision a bit unsettling — with the end result of not following through on the decision. He’s found a new method for making decisions, one where you don’t resist following through after the decision’s been made.
The basic premise is, “Out of the options available to me, which one do I want to experience most?” Read the full article for more details on why this can work better than the old decision-making models.
I know someone with a Kitchen Aide Mixer… It’s real nice.
This another notch in the “steve pavlina encourages me to be lazy” tally.
I’m like “Do I want to experience folding my laundry? Hmmm, not so much”
I got the same reaction to doing laundry, so I accepted that I don’t want to do laundry. Erin hates laundry too. Therefore we decided to pay someone to do it for us.
Laundry still needs to be done so you avoid walking around in a stink cloud, but you don’t have to do it personally. It isn’t difficult to find someone who’s glad to be paid to do something as simple as the laundry, and such people will usually do a better job anyway. The other person benefits, you benefit, and your clothes benefit.