Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 April 2020
The only way that you can purposefully influence anything in your life is by your decisions. Your decisions empower you to enhance the quality of your life and the lives of your family and friends and to make contributions at work in businesses, organizations, and government. We all develop decision-making habits early in life, and most of us continue to use these habits. Very few individuals learn to make decisions and then practice what they learned to become proficient, which is how most of us learn most other skills. The critical first step to learning to make better decisions is identifying all of your values for a decision. These values identify what you want to achieve by making the decision and should guide all of your effort to solve it. Additional key skills to develop concern how to create better alternatives and how to identify decision opportunities that you want to address to improve your life.
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