Here's How You Can Take Better Decisions

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I sincerely believe that you have written the thoughts that were running in your mind when you took that one decision that you thought was going to turn right, but it went sour.

Now, if our poor decisions are based on illusions that we believed in, then what are better decisions based on?

Here it is: ‘Our better decisions are based on realities that we recognized before it was too late.’

Interesting, isn’t it?

But we never look at our realities because they are blunt and harsh. They stare at our face speaking the truth. They make us feel uncomfortable.

Illusions on the other hand are like fairy tales. In a world of illusion everything that happens is full of abundance and prosperity. This is the reason we are instantly attracted to it.

Let me share with you how living in illusion can hamper your life: 

I knew this gentleman who wanted to be a producer in the film industry. He met a C - Grade actor who promised to make him a producer. The actor created an illusion in the mind of the producer that he knew big financers who will join hands with the producer to launch a product. The aspiring producer believed him.

Almost every weekend this C - Grade actor would bring along with him couple of C - Grade actresses to the house of this aspiring producer and in the name of story sitting he would ask the producer to prepare lavish dinner. The poor producer from morning will get into the process of preparing dinner.

What he did not realize that he was getting trapped into a vicious web of illusion created by this C - Grade actor.

The weeks turned into months and the months into years, the financers never turned up but the party at the producer’s house and at his expense kept on going.

What wrong did the aspiring producer do?

He made a decision to believe that C - Grade actor that one day he will make him a producer of films.

His decisions were made on the illusions that his mind created for him based on the false promises that the actor gave him.

The aspiring producer thought that his illusions were going to be realities.

Realities which never materialized.

If this aspiring producer had known how to take better decisions he would have seen through the illusion and had saved his time, money and energy that he wasted running behind that illusion.

The fact of the matter is that every person at one point or other in their lives has taken a wrong decision. But they keep on taking wrong decisions because they fail to learn from their wrong decisions.

It is never too late.

We cannot undo our past but surely we can improve our future with better decisions.

We can become better decision makers.

Thereby, we have the power to convert our past loses into profits that can be even ten times the loses we incurred by taking a wrong decision.

The best way to become a great decision maker is to develop the capability to differentiate illusion from reality and take decisions based on reality. All decisions based on reality may not be true but then we are ready to commit a mistake, learn from it and then move ahead to take another decision.

So, what decision are you taking today?