65: Prioritisation Series - Making The Judgement Calls
Dec 18, 2020
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Explore the importance of confident decision-making and prioritization, with insights on the drawbacks of indecisiveness. Learn how to navigate fear of mistakes and embrace change, along with strategies to enhance prioritization skills through bold action and commitment.
Making judgment calls and prioritizing clearly leads to better outcomes than indecisiveness.
Practical exercises help build prioritization skills by confronting anxiety and committing fully to choices.
Deep dives
The Power of Making Decisions
The podcast emphasizes the importance of making decisions and fully committing to them. Drawing from a sports analogy, the speaker highlights how indecisiveness can lead to negative outcomes, both in sports and in professional or personal life. By avoiding making choices and trying to keep all options open, individuals risk not excelling in any particular area. The speaker suggests that prioritizing clearly and making judgment calls, even if they may not always be perfect, leads to better outcomes than trying to keep all options open.
Practical Exercises for Prioritization
The podcast provides practical exercises to help listeners practice prioritization and decision-making. The first exercise involves removing one activity from the routine entirely, such as a meeting, report, client, or project, to confront the anxiety of letting go and making the wrong call. The goal is to gradually build the habit of making choices and prioritizing clearly. The second exercise focuses on actively choosing and committing to a set of priorities, giving them full attention and effort. By mastering prioritization skills through judgment calls and full commitment, individuals can increase confidence in decision-making and reap the benefits of focused attention and quick recovery from mistakes.
Do you ever feel you do a little bit of everything, but struggle to fully commit attention to the things that matter most? Making a judgement call risks of making the wrong move, but the bigger mistake is the opportunity lost. Pick up ideas in this episode to hone your skills in prioritising and backing your own decisions.