How To Implement
A Decision

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When you're considering how to implement a decision there are two aspects to it. How to implement a decision in terms of completing or performing the decision making process.

And also implementing in terms of giving effect to the decision, that is, actually taking the course of action that you decided upon.


First things first

Let's consider the first aspect. Rational decision making models are the most commonly discussed models and are easiest to teach because it's simply a matter of following the steps. The pros and the cons are compared and scored with the highest winning.

The other major group are the intuitive models where you trust your intuition and go with that. And there are a lot of different ways to go about doing this.


Your own way

But for whatever reason, you want to know how to implement a decision in a different way. The evidence? You're reading this page! So what about this?

In order to make effective decisions for yourself, the process has to include you. Who you are and the state you are in determine the kinds of decisions you make. Being in a poor state will lead to poor decisions. Being in a good state will lead to good decisions.


Form...

To know how to implement a decision, the first thing is to make sure you know how to access a good decision making state. There are lots of ways to do this and the most efficient, and effective, method is to learn how to organize your physical form. Literally how to fix your body so that your system is operating in its optimal state. When you have something that is structurally sound, then it will function well.


...then function

Of course, the functional aspect of how to implement a decision is every bit as important. And the significant piece here is how you structure the decision. By this I mean how you set the frame by the questions you ask.

Questions such as 'should I do this or not?' might give you different answers depending on the time of day, whether you're hungry or not, whether you're busy or not and so on. There is very little framework around them and far too many potential factors involved to be of any real use.

When some people consider how to implement a decision, the question is 'what's the best choice here?' Now this seems like a great question, but there are some flaws. Oftentimes it's impossible to know what's best because there's always a potential for something even better.

So it can force people into loops which take up more and more of their time. This might actually be one of those questions that actually inhibit people from implementing anything!


The form of the function

If you want to know how to implement a decision that allows you to make your own choices so that you can live your own life, a life of your choosing, here's a great question.

'If I do X., will it allow me to moreso be myself, be who I want to be in the world?'

The answer you get will be a set of internal signals, sounds, pictures and feelings, that indicate a yes or no. Yes obviously means go forward, no means don't do it.


Simplicity

This may seem simple, and indeed it is. The difficulty is that people have unlearned how to run this system. It has allowed us to develop and evolve as humans over the millennia. And our culture trains it out of us for many reasons. Many folks don't want us to know how to implement a decision and make our own choices. They prefer to make decisions and give us the illusion of choice.

When you hear people saying things such as 'I know I should, but...' whats happening is the internal signals are indicating one thing, the rational mind takes over and overrides it. They know inherently how to implement a decision, but the learning kicks in and takes over. With the result that they never get to live their own lives.


The results

When you relearn how to implement a decision in this way, it gives you tremendous freedom and control in and of your own life. With a little bit of practice, you'll find yourself getting more and more yes answers. And your life begins to move in a direction that is much more aligned with who you are. And who you are begins to influence the direction...


Implementing again

And now to the second part of how to implement a decision, the taking action.

If you knew that the next step you took would get you closer to where you actually want to go, would you be more or less likely to take it?


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