5 Easy Steps to Making Good Decisions for Your Goals — Entrepreneur Fox

4 min readJan 11, 2021

Each day, we are faced with lots of situations in life that require up making choices. Some of these choices are easy, and at times, some of them can be tough. With respect to easy and good decisions consist of things like what clothing you should wear; most people choose what to wear based on the season of the year, the weather of the day. Other easy decision consists of things like what to eat, what televisions programs to watch, and what movies to see.

Decisions that look to be the most difficult are those that require a deeper level of thought. Examples of difficult decisions consist of things like where to attend college, what career path, would be best, and whether or not to marry and start a family. These types of decisions are sometimes difficult because they are life-changing decisions; they shape our future and who we are.

Making a perfect and upto mark business decisions is a method that must be learned easily. It is not just a part of something with which we are innately born, but merely a step by step process that is ascertained from the life experience. Most adults know that experience can be costly, an ineffective teacher that teaches more bad habits than good, and because decisions can vary so obviously from one situation to the next; the experience which is being gained from making one essential decision is oftentimes of little or no use when another decision making problem arises.

While taking business decision making, there are many steps that can be taken, but when making good decisions there are really only five steps that need to be considered. These steps are as follows:

Step 1: Identify Your Goal

One of the most efficient and effective decisions making strategies is to keep an eye on your goal. This simply means identifying the purpose of your decision by taking yourself what exactly is the problem that needs to be solved? And why does this issue need to be re-solved?

Figuring out what is essential to you will help you to make good decisions. At the time when you know the reason why you have made a specific decision, it will help to serve you better in staying with it, and defending it.

Step 2: Gather Information for Weighing Your Options

At the time of making good business decisions it is best to gather necessary information that is directly related to the problem. Doing this will surely help you to better understand what needs to be done in solving the problem, and will also help to generate ideas for a possible solution.

Step 3: Consider the Consequences

This step can be just as essential as step one because it will help you to determine how your final decision will going to impact yourself, or others involved. In this step, you will be asking yourself what is likely to be the result of your decisions. How will it affect you know? And how will it affect your future?

Step 4: Make Your Decision

Now that you have identified your goal, gathered all necessary information, and weighted the consequences, it is time to make a choice and actually execute your final decision. By keeping in mind and understanding that this step can cause some people a lot of anxiety is essential because this is where you have to trust your instincts.

Step 5: Evaluate Your Decision

Once you have made your full and final decision and put it into action, then it is necessary to evaluate the decision and the steps you have taken to make sure that it works. This step is probably just as important as step one. This step is also fundamental because it may require you to seek out some of the new information and make some changes along the way.

Closure — Good Decision

Now at this point of time, as you know how to make better decisions in your life and work, I hope you feel inspired to step outside of your comfort zone and into your ideal future.

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Originally published at https://entrepreneurfox.com on January 11, 2021.