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The Most Important Decision for an Entrepreneur Each Day
Door Erno Hannink | Betere beslissingen
Door Erno Hannink | Betere beslissingen
On Jan 2nd, 2021 coach.me organized a great online event to start the year with momentum. Tony Stubblebine invited coaches that are connected to the coach.me platform to share their knowledge during this day. In total there were 63 presentations that day. You can watch one or more in the Momentum2021 playlist.
You can watch my talk in the video below.
One of the tricky things about being an entrepreneur is running on other people’s priorities. Your clients determine the deadline for the next project and they cause delays due to the internal structure and processes. Your employees require your attention and support.
What does help you to get a better grip on your results?
Three topics in this talk:
Two types of decisions (System 1 and 2 – Daniel Kahneman):
Conscious decisions take a lot of energy from our brain. That is why you prefer to make as many unconscious decisions as possible. They hardly cost any energy. Based on what you are used to and what is coming your way you continuously make very quick if-then choices.
Note: in his research Kahneman also learned that entrepreneurs are overly optimistic that they will succeed.
Most of the day, more than 90%, you make unconscious fast decisions. Most of them are habits, decisions and actions that you make and do over and over again. Habits are good for you because they consume less energy. Habits are actions you do without really thinking about it.
When a habit contributes to our goal, we call it a good habit. So you want to develop as many habits as possible. Good habits.
Many books have been written about habits such as, Tiny habits, Atomic habits, Good habits Bad habits. The most important conclusion is that willpower doesn’t work. Here are the most mentioned solutions that do work to form new habits:
Most of the day is filled with habits. If you want to do the things that contribute to your goals, you consciously plan what you will do. Let your actions depend as little as possible on signals from outside.
You want to work as much as possible in the important / non-urgent quadrant. Stay out of the important / urgent quadrant. (Eisenhower matrix) Urgencies rarely give the best results.
Make room in your agenda to consciously think about things that are important to you. Such as what is the most important thing you will do tomorrow. Other decisions for which you consciously want to make room for are, for example, a new employee, coaching your employees, a different office.
The effect of a decision is outside of your control. It is therefore important not to judge the result, but the process. If you want better decisions, you improve the process. Writing down your decisions and looking back at the process after a couple of months will give you ideas where you can improve your decision process.
Let’s start with creating your decision book. For more difficult decisions that have a lasting impact follow the steps below to make a better decision and write it down for evaluating your decisions at a later time.
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What is the decision about?
What emotions do you feel? Do you have a hunch? What does your intuition say?
What’s good about it? Consider the pluses of the decision.
What’s bad about it? Consider the minuses of the decision.
What all comes to mind? Consider alternatives. What are the possible costs if you don’t decide?
What expectations do I have of a positive outcome of my decision?
What actions do I need to do once I made a decision?
Schedule a follow-up in your calendar (for example 3 or 6 months later). Evaluate the decision-making process.
Analyze what can go wrong after making the decision. Then write down how you can prevent all these failure situations. Scenario planning by Adrie de Geus.
Who can help provide other insights into the decision? Is there an experienced expert? Who can you turn to as the devil’s advocate to reveal potential problems?
A coach that will give you a little nudge every time you are about to deviate from your good habits. This can be done in person, online, or via an app (coach.me).
Thank you Tony and coach.me for organizing this great event and publishing the videos of all the presentations at Momentum 2021.
Here you will find an overview of all the speakers at Momentum 2021.
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