There is No Right Decision

The bad news is the sought-after RIGHT decision is always just a receding mirage on the horizon. Predicting outcomes with 100% accuracy is a game of chance. The only way to find out the results of a decision is to make it, and see what happens.

The good news is RIGHT decisions come about by making the best decision available now, and then making that decision right.

How? If you don’t like the outcome of a decision, then choose to decide something else. Or identify what could be improved to make for more desirable results. Or maybe undesirable outcomes are actually messengers pointing to new previously not known directions and opportunities.

The only way to know is to act on a decision.

To avoid being caught off guard, be prepared when making any decision by making a list of all the worst things that could happen. The blows of what at first might seem like negative outcomes are also softened by viewing them as learning opportunities. The more learning, the more valuable the decision made becomes.

Any decision that requires all-or-nothing “betting the farm” needs to be reevaluated. 
How can it be broken down into smaller scale initiatives that can be tested that don’t require risking everything, and from which results can be quickly gleaned?

And where is the mandate to bet everything coming from? If it’s competitive pressure, what possible “blue ocean” decision opportunities might there be you can excel at instead of just being in reactive mode? What other areas could there be to be explored in which to better create your own certainty?

There are no right decisions.
There are only the decisions you make that you make right.