What Do You Want to Have Happen?
Decisions are easy when there’s only one thing to choose from. But when you’re drowning in options from the demands of too many conflicting priorities, it’s easy to lose sight of what’s really wanted.
Decision-making becomes impossible having to satisfy so many other masters fighting amongst themselves.
A leader’s responsibility is to clearly identify in detail and nurture the ultimate desired outcome. Decision-making is how that gets achieved. But only when the reasons for that decision are clearly delineated and articulated.
Keeping alive the intention of what you want to have happen becomes easier by reverse engineering how it might come to be. In your mind’s eye, see the desired outcome fully formed, shining brightly in the sun.
Now imagine a possible sequence of steps that came before it to make it become real, with each successive step, going backwards through time, getting closer and closer to where you are now.
Being prepared to allow these steps to change and be altered as circumstances change, but never losing sight of the feeling of that perfect desired outcome of what you want to have happen.
Maintaining relentless consistent intentional focus on what you ultimately want to have happen, without being concerned about how it will happen, allowing how it will happen to freely change, increases the likelihood of it actually happening.