Why the Most Successful People are Quick to Make Decisions and Slow to Change Them
Why this helps you maintain interest, momentum, and confidence.
Quick Decisions
Being a quick decision maker comes with multiple advantages and benefits. It eliminates time wasted, helps you go with your initial gut reaction, and allows for continued momentum.
Have you ever asked someone to make a decision at work or at home and they take so long to decide that by the time they get back to you, you’ve either lost all interest and motivation on the project or you’re no longer interested in the plans you were trying to make? Exactly.
Being a quick decision maker allows for continued momentum both with yourself and with others. There’s been personal projects I’m working on that have ended up being set to the side because I hemmed and hahhed too long on making the decision that would have gotten me to the next step. Don’t let that happen to you!
Quick decisions also show confidence. Whether it’s confidence to one other or to a large team, being a quick decision maker implies you’re confident in your knowledge of the situation and confident in the results you expect from that decision.
Waffling on any decision tends to show others you’re either nervous or unprepared to make the decision which can create confusion and uncertainty within your organization or team.
Try to find ways to make quick decisions so you can reap the benefits of confidence, momentum, and interest.
Slow to Change Your Mind
Those that change their minds are going to quickly find themselves tied up in knots. Changing ideas, reverting back to old methods, tweaking plans are all quick ways to increase confusion both for yourself and your team. Changing decisions already in action can quickly eat up your resources like time, human capital, and money.
Just like with making the initial decision, being quick to change your mind reduces momentum and confidence. In fact, it’s problem by a worse thing because you’re risking changing a decision that’s already in motion. However, being slow to change your mind allows you to methodically change things that truly need to be addressed and altered.
If you’re the sole decision maker and you’re known for being slow to change, you’ll decrease how often others come to you for changes. Set the culture and ensure your team knows that decisions made by others also need to be certain before they get to you so there’s no regret from the team.
Being quick to make decisions and slow to change your mind will almost certainly set you and your team up for sustained success. By remembering this success tip you’ll avoid wasting more time and resources than necessary and maintain momentum and confidence.
Hope this proves helpful in your project management mindset!
Bye for now,
Olivia & Kaid, the OK in @okworldtravel
