MASTERING EFFICIENCY 6
Hello beautiful people. Before you finish your discussion MR. EFFORT and DECISION MAKING will approach you. He is a very hardworking guy and he will not wait for you to take your time and just be doing things lackadaisically.
The first question he will ask you is "What do you want us to do?"
While everybody will take it easy with you, he will not, he will keep you on your toes because a wise decision maker is a candidate for mastering efficiency.
He will tell you to avoid decision fatigue.
LIMIT OPTIONS AND HAVE ALTERNATIVES
Simplify your choices by limiting the available options, your brain can give you a billion options and one of the reasons you should do this is you will also eliminate excuses in the process.
Try to always have at most 3 options. If there are more, eliminate the options that do not have a means to help you achieve efficiency.
For example,
You want to go somewhere. Your options include walking, taking a bike, a car, and an aeroplane.
The location, distance, and speed needed to reach the place as well as the urgency or importance of going there will help you decide which option you should go with.
Like why will you decide to walk from Benue to Lagos for interview? Or why will you take a plane to the market?
You get it right? Now use the logic for other decisions.
If you can't still make a decision, then you have to apply the VOTING & BATCH DECISION OR HEURISTIC APPROACH
Voting system helps you cut down on time wasting which usually affect efficiency especially wen you have to collaborate. If I notice something is beginning to take my time, I vote between options and I stick to my choice, no rigging and I will not allow APC chairman make a choice for me in the midnight.
When you and your boyfriend can't decide what tp eat because love is turning both of you into mumu, you people should vote quickly and allow the singles breath.
Batch Decision is grouping similar decisions together and doing them all at once, women are very good with batch decisions, they will go to the market without a list and return with all they needed to buy. So you can decide to launder your clothes while taking your bath or before leaving for the market where you will spend 30 minutes, or less.
Heuristics is a decision making technique where you learn from observing what other people are doing. When you enter a restaurant, observe what others are ordering, don't go and order from a Chinese menu when you can't speak or understand a word.
You are a hairdresser, look at what others are doing in their shops and imitate for your own decision making process. Use WhatsApp calls instead of airtime if you just want to gossip. Always decide with efficiency on mind.
Finally on this, choose the simplest and easiest option to accomplish unless terr is a compelling reason you shouldn't. When you want to use software tools on a computer, use the one that is easier and you are more familiar with. Mr. Effort and Decision making doesn't worry too much about perfection, he is worried you are taking too long to make a move, when you use him well, you will navigate life with much more efficiency.
