Sunday, October 27, 2013

Decision making


Everyone faces a situation in their lives where they confront themselves with the task of making a tough decision. The situation no matter if it is light or tough, a decision has to be made. No one can teach a person on what decisions to make because every situation or condition is different from one another and I am not here to do that.

Getting insights from a literature that I reviewed recently, it provided with endless thinking aspects on how a decision should be made. It proved that decision making is multi-dimensional activity where the many dimensions are based in the thinking before the final decision is made.

Its widely advised that all decisions should be made with a calm mind. But many of us do not follow this and most of the times takes decisions to calm the mind. Only a calm mind analyses the whole picture weighing down the pros and cons, rethinking over and adequately allowing time before settling down. In other case when we take decisions to calm the mind, the decision making becomes secondary and our state of mind becomes the first point of importance. So to be at peace a hasty decision is made.

A decision is also be made putting in front the two important paradigms, righteousness and love. Righteousness and love are like the Sun and the Moon. A decision made out of love will please the ones whom you are making the decision for and provide comfort just like the Moon and the cool breeziness of the night, but there is darkness behind it which may grip you anytime when the moon disappears. A righteous decision is like the Sun because it can be hot, bright and hard to make, but in the end it always spreads brightness.