{"id":1824,"date":"2016-08-21T12:00:26","date_gmt":"2016-08-21T12:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecornerstone.wpengine.com\/?post_type=podcasts&#038;p=1824"},"modified":"2024-08-13T02:03:05","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T07:03:05","slug":"overcoming-decision-paralysis-make-better-choices-quickly","status":"publish","type":"podcasts","link":"https:\/\/truthforteachers.com\/truth-for-teachers-podcast\/overcoming-decision-paralysis-make-better-choices-quickly\/","title":{"rendered":"Overcoming decision paralysis: how to make better choices more quickly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have a paralyzing number of choices in our culture today. Just picking a loaf of bread to buy at the grocery store can be a five-minute process that leaves you feeling mentally drained and annoyed by all the different factors you have to weigh for something that seems like it would be so simple.<\/p>\n<p>In teaching, you may get hung up on decisions like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>What planner or gradebook should I buy?<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Should I use interactive notebooks with my class?<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Would I be better off with this particular whole class quiz app, or should I find another one?<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Which desk arrangement would be best for the types of activities I\u2019m doing with kids this week?<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Here\u2019s how to\u00a0make better decisions, make them more quickly, and feel comfortable sticking with them after they\u2019ve been made (instead of second-guessing yourself).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1825 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/truthforteachers.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/decision-paralysis-making-better-decisions1-500x500.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" data-pin-description=\"Overcoming decision paralysis: how to make better choices more quickly --If you're having trouble making decisions, this will definitely help.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/truthforteachers.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/decision-paralysis-making-better-decisions1-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/truthforteachers.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/decision-paralysis-making-better-decisions1-500x500-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/truthforteachers.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/decision-paralysis-making-better-decisions1-500x500-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Want to listen instead of read?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Listen to season 4 episode 3 below,<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>or subscribe in your podcast app.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/4569758\/height\/90\/width\/500\/theme\/custom\/autonext\/no\/thumbnail\/yes\/autoplay\/no\/preload\/no\/no_addthis\/no\/direction\/backward\/no-cache\/true\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/672C5B\/\" width=\"500\" height=\"90\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Want to listen instead of read?\u00a0Download the audio and listen on the go!<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>1) Set limits on how much time you will spend exploring your options.<\/h3>\n<p>I\u2019ll give you an example that happened to me recently. My team and I have been swamped with emails from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/40htw.com\/\">40\u00a0Hour Teacher Workweek Club<\/a>\u00a0members and really needed some sort of program that would allow us to have a proper help desk where members can get their questions answered and submit a help ticket if they need assistance. Choosing a platform is a decision that I could have spent days or even weeks agonizing over. But I have a lot of other decisions to make and a lot of work to do, and not a lot of time.\u00a0<strong>So I gave myself one hour to make a decision.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I Googled it first, \u201cbest helpdesk email,\u201d and scanned a few articles. It became apparent that there were at least a dozen options, but only two major players in the industry, so I immediately ruled out all the others.\u00a0<strong>I didn\u2019t want to explore every option available, just the best ones, and if most people were choosing one of these two platforms, that was social proof enough for me to feel okay about not looking into the others. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I then asked a web developer friend for his opinion (rather than crowdsourcing in a group or asking Facebook friends, and waiting days to see all the different opinions and conflicting advice). My friend echoed what I had discovered on my own: There were two good choices and either would probably work just fine for me. So, I spent the last thirty minutes of the hour I had allotted to this task to exploring the two options, comparing features and pricing, and reading reviews online.<\/p>\n<p>This was the point where most people would have felt like they\u2019d gotten close to making a decision and decide to stop there for the day.\u00a0<strong>However, I knew my decision hadn\u2019t truly been made until I took action on it and I didn\u2019t want to have to block out time on the following day to processing the information all over again.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There will always be something new and probably even better out there, and if you get \u201cshiny object syndrome,\u201d you will waste a ton of time. Make the decision as soon as possible and don\u2019t overthink it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>I\u2019d spent about an hour on the decision-making process at this point, so I bought the tool I thought was best and immediately moved into the phase of learning how to use it.<\/strong>\u00a0If I\u2019d found it too difficult or encountered a major problem with it, I would have reached out for support and either pushed through or switched to the other tool at that point. But I simply have too many other decisions to spend days or weeks weighing all the options and going back and forth. Maybe I should have picked the other tool. Maybe I would have liked it better. But the choice I made is just fine and works great for my needs.<\/p>\n<p>I encourage you to follow a similar process as you make your decisions, particularly around tech tools or which teacher planner you should buy or any sort of decision where there are tons of options out there.\u00a0<strong>Set a time limit for how long you will spend researching the choices, and when time is up, go with your gut and make a decision.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>2) Never procrastinate in a way that causes you to make the same decision twice.<\/h3>\n<p>Some people have a tendency to procrastinate because they\u2019re afraid they\u2019ll make the wrong choice. So they weigh their options, come to a likely conclusion, but don\u2019t ever make that final decision and pull the trigger.\u00a0<strong>They say they\u2019ve decided, or they\u2019ll \u201cprobably\u201d do XYZ, but they don\u2019t take action on that decision because they haven\u2019t\u00a0<em>really<\/em>\u00a0made up their minds.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, I\u2019m not always as decisive as I was in the example I gave you about choosing the email platform.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s sort of a non-example of what happens when you\u00a0<em>aren\u2019t<\/em>\u00a0decisive.<\/p>\n<p>I use a service called\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/emeals.com\/?utm_medium=CJ&amp;utm_source=5656908\">eMeals<\/a>\u00a0for my meal planning. I really love eMeals (and am an affiliate for it) because it\u2019s $59 for the whole year and they send me seven new recipe ideas every week. All I have to do is pick a few I want to make (either from the new recipes or my recipe library saved in the app), and eMeals creates the shopping list for me.<\/p>\n<p>The whole point is\u00a0to keep me from wasting time meal planning, or worse, NOT\u00a0meal planning and standing in the kitchen for 20 minutes trying to figure out what I\u2019m going to make while hoping I\u2019m not missing a key ingredient. The other purpose is to make grocery shopping quicker and easier: Before eMeals, I would create my own shopping lists, which I hated doing, and I always forgot an ingredient. Now I can plan my meals for the week and have a shopping list ready in less than five minutes.<\/p>\n<p>So, in general, it\u2019s a good system, but on this particular week, I had favorited a bunch of different meals and never made the decision about which meals I was going to make.\u00a0<strong><em>I\u2019d weighed my options, but I didn\u2019t take action<\/em><\/strong>. I figured it didn\u2019t really matter and I\u2019d narrow things down when I got to the store.<\/p>\n<p>When I got to the store, my phone rang and I was completely distracted by the conversation. By the time I got off the phone, I was in the middle of the store and still didn\u2019t know what I was there to shop for. I figured something out midway through the aisles and had to backtrack across the store to get an ingredient I was going to need after all, and ended up getting home and realizing I\u2019d\u00a0<em>still<\/em>\u00a0forgotten something.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you live your entire life this way &#8212; never really making a decision or acting on it until you\u2019re completely out of time &#8212; it will wear you out and impair your ability to create the life you want to live.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So what went wrong here?\u00a0<em>I had convinced myself that I\u2019d made a decision &#8212;\u00a0<\/em>I knew basically what I was going to buy, right? All I had to do was make those last few selections between meals when I went to the store. But that means the decision wasn\u2019t really made.\u00a0<strong>I was procrastinating instead of being decisive and I ended up having to spend my evening making the decision and then my afternoon the next day thinking through all the same questions, all over again, at the store.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While this may sound like a minor thing, it created double work and double hassle for me and got me less than optimal results.\u00a0The finite amount of brain power you have is constantly being expended on finishing the decision-making process, and you never get to fully take that task off your mental to-do list and have closure.<\/p>\n<p>So, when you sit down to make a decision, make it right then and there. Don\u2019t procrastinate in making the final decision so that you end up doing the same work twice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Just had time to skim this post? Download the audio and listen on the go!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/4569758\/height\/90\/width\/500\/theme\/custom\/autonext\/no\/thumbnail\/yes\/autoplay\/no\/preload\/no\/no_addthis\/no\/direction\/backward\/no-cache\/true\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/672C5B\/\" width=\"500\" height=\"90\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>3) Make \u201cjust fine\u201d your goal, rather than \u201cjust right.\u201d<\/h3>\n<p>Much of our decision paralysis comes from trying to find the PERFECT thing: The perfect chair for the desk, the perfect lesson to implement during an evaluation, the perfect outfit for presenting at a faculty meeting.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This desire to find the perfect thing subconsciously puts more emphasis on the decision that it warrants &#8212; you\u2019re pressuring yourself to find perfection for something that is relatively minor in the grand scheme of things.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And that creates decision paralysis &#8212; there are hundreds of thousands of options out there. How will you ever find the one that\u2019s\u00a0<em>just right<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>Even when you think you\u2019ve found it, there will still be that little nagging thought in the back of your brain that wonders if there was something even better.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So the goal in your decision-making shouldn\u2019t be to pick the option that is \u201cjust right.\u201d Instead, look for one that is \u201cjust fine.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In most cases, the best choice is not the one you\u2019d need to spend more hours hunting down, it\u2019s the one that you have right in front of you, ready to use now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you\u2019re in the store and the chair in front of you is comfortable and affordable, why leave empty-handed and spend the whole day trekking around to other stores and comparison shopping online? Get the chair that\u2019s just fine, and move on to the next task and decision.<\/p>\n<p>If you found a lesson that would be \u201cjust fine\u201d for your evaluation, don\u2019t spend hours looking for something better &#8212; take some time to adapt what you have already and make it the best possible lesson and then move on.<\/p>\n<form class=\"general-form-styles\" action=\"https:\/\/www.getdrip.com\/forms\/134673066\/submissions\" method=\"post\" data-drip-embedded-form=\"134673066\">\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\" data-drip-attribute=\"headline\">Want a printable version of this post to share?<\/h3>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\" data-drip-attribute=\"description\">Enter your email address below to access it in PDF form.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><label for=\"drip-email\"><\/label><br \/>\n<input id=\"drip-email\" name=\"fields[email]\" type=\"email\" value=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><input name=\"submit\" type=\"submit\" value=\"SEND IT NOW\" data-drip-attribute=\"sign-up-button\" \/><\/div>\n<\/form>\n<h3>4) Think of \u201c70% sure\u201d as an actual decision.<\/h3>\n<p>Here\u2019s the good news: You don\u2019t need to wait until you\u2019re 100% positive on most things in order to move forward with the decision.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The majority of decisions aren\u2019t important enough to keep mulling over and over until you reach 100% certainty.<\/strong>\u00a0(And if we\u2019re really honest? The big decisions in life are so big you\u2019ll never feel 100% sure you\u2019re doing the right thing, anyway.)\u00a0For most classroom decisions, 70% sure is going to be just fine.<\/p>\n<p>For example, if you\u2019re not sure whether you should use Bloomz or Remind as your parent communication app, don\u2019t wait until someone has 100% convinced you that Bloomz is superior and you\u2019re sure it\u2019s going to be the absolute perfect tool for your particular needs. You\u2019ll spend weeks trying to weigh the options and end up with sticking to your current method of \u201ccrumpled papers in the bottom of student backpacks\u201d by default.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, go online and find a comparison of the two tools, ask the opinions of teachers you trust, and then pick one. Get in there and use it. Try it out. Experiment. If you hate it (which you almost certainly won\u2019t once you get past the learning curve), you can switch to something else the following year.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t allow yourself to stay in decision paralysis until you reach 100% certainty.\u00a0<strong>When you\u2019re mostly sure, trust your gut instinct, and keep moving forward.<\/strong><\/p>\n<span class='bctt-click-to-tweet'><span class='bctt-ctt-text'><a href='https:\/\/x.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftruthforteachers.com%2Ftruth-for-teachers-podcast%2Fovercoming-decision-paralysis-make-better-choices-quickly%2F&#038;text=Take%20risks.%20If%20you%20win%2C%20you%27ll%20be%20happy.%20If%20you%20lose%2C%20you%27ll%20be%20wiser.%20--Unknown%20%20&#038;related' target='_blank'rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Take risks. If you win, you&#039;ll be happy. If you lose, you&#039;ll be wiser. --Unknown   <\/a><\/span><a href='https:\/\/x.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftruthforteachers.com%2Ftruth-for-teachers-podcast%2Fovercoming-decision-paralysis-make-better-choices-quickly%2F&#038;text=Take%20risks.%20If%20you%20win%2C%20you%27ll%20be%20happy.%20If%20you%20lose%2C%20you%27ll%20be%20wiser.%20--Unknown%20%20&#038;related' target='_blank' class='bctt-ctt-btn'rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Share on X<\/a><\/span>\n<h3>5) Avoid second guessing yourself after the decision is made unless you\u2019ve received new information that warrants reconsideration, AND you can actually do something about it.<\/h3>\n<p>You know that moment of panic you have after you\u2019ve made a decision and taken action on it? That little nagging voice that wonders, \u201c<em>What if we did the wrong thing?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Dismiss it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you haven\u2019t received new information that warrants second-guessing yourself, there\u2019s no reason to return to the decision-making process after the decision has been made.<\/strong>\u00a0Get yourself busy in implementation mode and move forward. Tell yourself,\u00a0<em>\u201cI made an informed decision based on the best info I had at the time and it\u2019s going to work out JUST FINE.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If you learn something new that would have affected your decision, you still don\u2019t want to revisit or question the decision-making process if you don\u2019t have the ability to change anything. If you were debating between two purchases, made a decision and started using the purchase, and then discover the following week that the other one is on sale now, do not criticize yourself or allow yourself to second guess.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Most of life is not nearly as black-and-white as it seems when we\u2019re paralyzed by decisions. There are rarely decisions that are all good or all bad.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Everyone is entitled to making a choice and realizing later it wasn\u2019t the best option after all. Don\u2019t allow that to cause you to stay in decision paralysis on the next decision<\/strong>\u00a0by replaying it in your head: <em>But last time, I messed up and picked the wrong thing!\u00a0<\/em>This is not a game of The Price Is Right where you\u2019ve got a yacht behind door number one and a donkey behind door number two.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s far more important than the actual decision is protecting your time and managing your energy.\u00a0<\/strong>Keep moving forward and focus on the decision that you need to make next.<\/p>\n<p>There will never be any shortage of decisions to make, so you will get plenty of practice in fine-tuning your instincts and decision-making skills!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/40htw.com\/join\/challenge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-135760\" src=\"https:\/\/truthforteachers.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Teacher-Tired-Challenge.jpg\" alt=\"Take the free Teacher Tired Challenge! 5 days to doing fewer things, better.\" width=\"618\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/truthforteachers.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Teacher-Tired-Challenge.jpg 700w, https:\/\/truthforteachers.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Teacher-Tired-Challenge-500x335.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Want more help with setting priorities &amp; figuring out what to eliminate?<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/40htw.com\/join\/challenge\/\">Get the free challenge sent to your inbox now.<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><em>This post is based on the latest episode of my weekly podcast,\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/truthforteachers.com\/truth-for-teachers\"><em>Angela Watson\u2019s Truth for Teachers<\/em><\/a><em>. A podcast is like a free talk radio show you can listen to online, or download and take with you wherever you go. I release a new 10-15 minute episode each Sunday and feature it here on the blog to help you get energized and motivated for the week ahead.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/truthforteachers.com\/category\/truth-for-teachers-podcast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1766 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/truthforteachers.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/TFT-Podcast-Icon2-500x500-300x300.png\" alt=\"Truth for Teachers podcast: a weekly 10 minute talk radio show you can download and take with you wherever you go! 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