An interesting article came out in the Business Insider today which talks about things to note for about making decisions and willpower. The article pointed out that in a global study that was made, it was discovered that self control was the most prominent weakness by people. A separate study also suggest that willpower is a brain resource that will eventually get depleted as we make use of our decision making facilities.
1) Decisions should be made in the morning before your mental resources are depleted
2) Small decisions accumulate to deplete the resource
3) During the state of mental depletion, this is the time that people tend to make trade-offs
4) Glucose helps in making good decision
5) At an average people spend up to 4 times a day to resist desire.
6) The most successful people have developed routines and habits that help eliminate stress and conserve energy for important decisions.
7) Adequate Healthy Eating, Sleeping and Exercise is key to sound decision making.
8) Groups are made more intelligent because of women members of a group based on a study published on the Harvard Business Review.
9) Another article by the Harvard Business Review shows how important the unconscious is in making decisions ... so it is good to sleep on it.
10) Ask help, or run by your ideas with others to get a different point of view.
11) Once in a while there is value in making the wrong decisions, we learn from our mistakes.
12) Delegate the decision making process, or create dependencies that will force the decision automatically.
13) Accepting and educating ourselves towards the fact that right decision making is not a 100% full proof process / guarantee prepares us to engage it smarter.
14) Plan ahead and not procastinate helps in conserving mental energy.
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