How can I better choose? When you make a choice, you change the future. Deepak Chopra. Let's get practical.
Here we have another how-to question. How can I do I better choose? Number one, cut your options. And I quote, Barack Obama, on why he only wears gray or blue suits.
I'm trying to bear down decisions. I don't want to make decisions about what I'm eating or wearing because I have too many other decisions to make. Cut your options. When PNG, Procter & Gamble, cut their shampoo line.
Hadn't show this, this was. From 26 products to 15, the company saw a 10% increase in sales. See, here you have less is more. So if you have 10 options at the moment, create an initial criteria for choosing, right?
And cut it down to five. Then focus your criteria, cut it down even further, perhaps. Pray through it, and from that five, make your final choice. Cut your options.
Help yourself to expert advice. How do I make better choices? Listen to the experts' advice, the KOLs, right? The key opinion leaders.
Malcolm Gladwell advises us to listen to enlightened, experienced experts, as they, and I quote, from his book, Blink. Meaning, when they give you their instant insight concerning a matter they are familiar with, listen. Like in his book, that veteran art collector, who knew that a supposed antique sculpture, this is in his book, from a distance, within a blink of an eye, was actually a fake. Okay, sorry.
I think moms are generally good judges of potential boyfriend material. Sato Toolam, help yourself to mom's advice. Number three, open yourself to a trial period. With a deadline.
Before we hire a person, for example, I've learned that we go for a trial period, a project, which actually serves both parties, because the decision to eventually work together is ultimately a mutual one. In terms of a deadline, if you've heard of Parkinson's Law, it theorizes that work expands to fill the time available for completion. Luma Dami Antarbaho, Pagmas Marami Oras. That's actually a law.
So if you have a five p.m. deadline, you end up working until five. But if you set a deadline at two o'clock, you'll most likely get the same amount of work done by two o'clock. You want to make better choices?
Open yourself to a trial period with a deadline. Number four, opt to pay in cash. Huh? A couple of cash lists.
And there was a lot of alcohol at this day and age. When you are handling money, cash, actual bills, studies will show you that you will make better decisions when you part with it. In fact, purchases increased by at least 30% for institutions. Some of those already, most of those already unnecessary, when the institution makes you pay by credit card, or smart pada, or G cash.
See, because when you opt to pay in cash, it's harder to part with something that you can actually see. So you make better choices in your investments. Number five, stack them up in categories. Your options to choose from.
It's easier to choose. Imagine this. Among 500 options, if they're stacked up in, four categories, right? Or in a grocery, in four stacks.
Compared to choosing only from 100 options, but it's divided into 10 different stacks. So when you stack options in categories, it's easier and better for you to choose. And finally, number six, I guess you can see, we've opted to use the word choose as our acronym, embrace the option that best accomplishes your goal. What is the goal?
Then it gives more context to the text, right? The choice you have to make. You've heard this. Use your best judgment.
That's often instructions given by a boss, right? To people in his team. Well, it assumes that the person is making a choice, thinking of what is the best end goal. That you are empowered to decide based on what is best for the advancement of the business.
What else? What is in the interest, best interest of the customer? It is the best way to adhere to your company's values without compromising your stakeholders. And, and when you choose, based on the goal, and there are trade offs, right?
You will lose some, you'll win some. You choose mindful that the costs will be outweighed by the resulting benefits. So, what's the question? How can I better choose?
See, cut your options. H, help yourself to expert advice. O, open yourself to a trial period with a deadline. Another O, opt, or choose to pay in cash.
S, stack them up in categories, and E, embrace the option that best accomplishes the goal. C-H-O-O-S-E, choose. Now, choose. Romans 12 to do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind.
That by best thing, the different options, you may discern what is best, what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.