Make your decisions on paper before telling them to others
I once heard that there is always 10% more “good” work than you can do.
Why?
Life comes at you fast. We have a ton of inputs that shapes our decisions. There is always something to do and a process to change.
If we allow it, we can change our minds until the cows come home, because we want to do impactful work.
Change seems to make this possible.
That is why we have to write our decisions down when we get to a possible conclusion.
There are several benefits:
- A list allows you to make priorities.
- It frames the discussion, giving people a border to think
- When you write things down it skews to action. It’s out of our heads.
Colin Powell once said you should act when you reach 70% of the information because 100% is a pipe dream.
I agree.
Get things out of your head to make things happen, because if you let a decision live there, you’ll spend more time working it out there than in the world.
From the desk of Adam Thomas 