Chapter 16. MASTER YOUR DECISION-MAKING

How much time do you spend making decisions? Are you guilty of paralysis by analysis? Believe it or not, something that often soaks up a disproportionate amount of time is procrastinating over making decisions, which may not even be about huge, life-changing issues.

Some people can spend ages on relatively trivial and domestic decision-making. For example, I know people who will put off booking a holiday until they have researched every hotel in every resort, read every review, studied the weather forecasts and statistics for that time of the year, compared the prices of every operator and the reliability of the airlines. Finally, what do they book? Absolutely nothing, because the more information they have ...

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