Objective decision making

By creating a clear understanding of what needs to be achieved, and focusing on the “why” it needs to be achieved, we somehow narrow our confusion and become more prolific with our decisions. There are various ways to make decisions. I am not going to say to you that this is the best or preferred way to make a decision or going to say to you to try this, and it will work or try that, and it wouldn’t work. Most times, being successful in things, depends on your perception of those things, your ideas, and especially your decisions, and not necessarily the opinion of others. What I can say to you though is that, as long as you have the right desire and the right focus, then chances are that you will make the right decisions based on your level of focus. But that is not what will sustain you. Inevitably, you must have an objective strategy and align it with the decisive vision for sustainability. It is more accurate to think objectively about what you desire to achieve before you figure out how you want to achieve it. The first move is always to “decide into the expected result,” with a clear objective in mind, to visualise the end, even before you begin.

If you are uncertain about where to start, ask yourself the question, what are your expected results once the goal has been reached? That way it is easier to work backwards. Once you are clear on WHAT needs to be achieved, you will need to start planning and be agile or flexible about the steps that will guide you there, regardless of seen or unforeseen obstacles. It is easy for me to share this because I have used it a lot of times and have extended its value on so many projects I have worked on over my career. Noticeably as a project manager for a very long time, part of my job was to guide the team's vision, aims, goals and objectives.

We set our objectives and lock focus on it as a team. Though individuals may have theirs, but the team’s objectives are set on expected results that have been visualised from the beginning of the project. It is an encouraging sign to be able to hold that vision, that visual of things to come when an objective is set. Many times, we tend to lose focus on the essence of the minor activities that we are engaged in, forgetting that, it all somehow adds up, to our overarching purpose. It is at times like this we look, or rather revisit our decisions, with regard to why we decided to do these things in the first place. Surely that first decision must have meant something.