This document provides guidance on how to make good decisions. It recommends identifying the decision and desired outcomes, brainstorming options, considering the potential consequences of each option, weighing the probabilities of different outcomes, knowing your strengths and limits, and allowing time for thorough consideration before deciding. Key steps include exploring all possible options, listing pros and cons, making a decision tree if possible, visualizing outcomes, and deciding with an honest assessment rather than emotions. The overall message is that taking time for thorough analysis and understanding all factors can lead to better decisions.
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2. Why Decisions are Important
In our daily life we have certain number of
choices an we have to select only one of them.
This choice affects our nearest future. Sometime
shortly and some times for decade.
Some decisions are too small we never notice
them and some are big e.g. Education related
and others.
4. Some Decision We Never Notice..!
Behavior with family members & other persons.
Deciding priorities in life. i.e.
Prioritizing daily life tasks.
Not affectively applying the learned tasks.
Managing your time, space we occupy in room and
in the relations i.e. friends and family
Affective communication with them.
Calling with friends we have not spoken for a long
time.
5. Cont..
Doing your homework, study tasks, managing
everyday tasks.
Proper time management as Prophet Hazrat
Mohammad SAW has divided his whole day in 4
sections.
One for family, one for prayer,
Going for walk / exercise.
Daily routines proper assessments. As Hazrat Abbu
Bakr Siddique tries to do every night before going
to sleep.
6. Cont..
Personal care i.e. teeth brushing after meal,
taking bath after sleep so as to be active, making
up your hair, bear and maintaining fitness.
What to read and what not to read. Selection of
proper book for suitable task.
Proper eating routines, selection of proper food,
7. Cont..
Selection of proper clothes, keeping yourself
healthy and neat. Taking some necessary tools
for his purpose with yourself like Miswak, Small
Mirror and comb with yourself.
Selection of proper TV Channels. It should be
Islamic, Health related and should have
discussion of healthy topics
Take care of your sight, hand, ears, tongue. It
should not see, listen, speak Haram
9. Why to Make Good Decision
Life comes once. Live it in such a way that you
should be an exemplary persons for the persons
living behind you.
Live a life that when you pass out from here,
people remember you in Good Words.
Good Decision are key ingredients that makes
your life successful, effective and productive.
10. Cont.
Your decisions shapes your Destiny.
Sometimes its the smallest decision that can
change your life forever.
12. Making Good Decision
Identify the decision to be made as well as
outcomes and objectives you want to achieve.
Brainstorm its related ideas
Dont try to get results suddenly. Give anything you
are going to do proper time for execution.
Because of sudden decisions, they have effect on
our mood, anxiety and on our work burden.
Take proper step to eliminate each based on its
category.
14. Cont.
List down all possible options you have.
Explore some options if you have limited
possible options. It may widen your approach
and thinking.
Sometimes crazy ideas comes in to mind.
Involve these ideas in the list as well as these
types of thing helps you think out of the box to
perform an innovative work
15. Cont..
Asking from others about the things you are
stuck in. May be you dont like their opinion but
you have to notice that their opinion is not
biased.
17. Know About Options..
Decision should be based on the possible
consequences of the possible outcomes.
You must be able to rank all the consequences in
order in order of the preference and assign a
probability to each possible outcome.
Your choice should maximize your expected
utility, or roughly speaking, the likelihood of the
outcomes that yield highly prefered
consequences.
18. Cont..
Weigh the probabilities or possible outcomes.
Enlist all positive and negative points of the
options
Also note what worse can happen with this
option and what best with that.
Notice the chance percentage that certain option
will cause something.
It will help you measure which option has more
positive possible outcomes.
21. Knowing Yourself
Sometime you see that following decision is
best. Take sometime to look another side of the
picture.
May be consequences of this decision is small but
consider if that occur? At this stage can you
physically and mentally would be able to face it.
Visualize every outcome that you are facing it.
Engage your senses and try to know what your
maximum limit is.
22. Knowing Yourself..
Also consider the work you have to do for positive
results. Make yourself prepare for that.
Dont forget trouble that you may face in reaching a
positive outcome.
Go through all options again.
Make your best try & Asks Allah for positive
results.
Take proper rest and eat properly. Both will keep you
free of physical and mental attire.
25. Decide..
Dont mix your emotions with outcomes. Be
honest and realistic while considering outcomes.
Reach at your best position and decide you have
to do that for the best of person associated to you
and for yourself.
Once made a decision after complete analysis
dont change it without any solid particular
reason.