Volume 01 Issue 17: Decide and Move On

“Take your time. Don’t make a decision in a rush. Take all the time you need to think it through”. So we are told; whenever we need to make an important decision. Back in school those who were last to leave the exam room were envied by others who thought they would get the highest marks because they took their time to think through their answers.

We tend to take our time, tell people not to rush us. Those who seem to rush through decisions are mistaken for being careless, impatient, and their decisions judged before-hand as wrong until proven right.

Taking time to think is quite in order. But it doesn’t mean you do it slowly. Taking a week to come up with an idea doesn’t make it any better than the idea you come up with in an hour.

Working fast does not necessarily mean inaccurate. Speed is not in contradiction with good and correct choices. Taking too long to make a decision doesn’t guarantee that the decision eventually arrived at is the right one.

The faster you work the more efficient you are. Back in exam rooms, those who finished before everybody else tended to score the highest marks. You have to learn to make a decision quickly; within the shortest time possible and move on to other things.

Think quickly about issues at hand and make decisions promptly. Act with speed on your dream before someone else who lacks the passion you have for it runs with it before you do.

Lillian Chebosi