Consumer decisions - Where do they fit?

I heard a news report yesterday that said that retailers expect over 2 million high-definition TVs to be bought just for this year’s Super Bowl.  That got me thinking afresh about the place of consumer decisions in a Decision Driven® Life.  When I built the life decision pattern, I knew that I had to address [...]

Decision Context: Good Habits to Promote

Concerning the previous blog entry, I though I should provide the decision context for the Good Habits to Promote decision.  Just walk down the tree of decisions from Life Vision to My Identity to Good Habits …

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Decision: Good Habits to Promote

As I get feedback from Decision Driven® Life trial users, one thing stands out.  People are busy, perhaps too busy to add a new habit to their life; however valuable that habit may be.  Anyone familiar with Charles Hummel’s excellent booklet, Tyranny of the Urgent, understands that “urgent things crowd out the important.”  
So I thought [...]

Proactive Decision-making

For much of my early life, decisions were a surprise.  They popped up spontaneously like a fork in the road, seemingly out of nowhere.  They usually had a deadline that I had to scramble to meet.  I had to quickly find a friend who knew something about this topic, get their input and take the [...]

What is a decision?

When we use the word “decision” in everyday speech, we use it two different ways.  When I am looking forward to a fork in the road of life, I might say, “I need to make a decision - which college should I attend?”.  The word “decision” implies a question, issue or concern that needs an [...]

Decisions are the controls for your life or business - grab them!

I think often in terms of metaphors.  Because decisions are an abstract concept, I’ve struggled through the years to come up with effective word pictures to represent them. 
While explaining to family and friends the concepts behind Decision Driven® Life, the metaphor of a video game controller has been useful.  Skilled gamers master the use of [...]

Decision: My Career

The choice of a career is one of the most significant decisions we face in life.  I have framed this decision as “What career field (type of work) should I pursue?” to distinguish it from more specific decisions such as “Employer” or “Job/Position”. 
Some factors to be considered in this decision are obvious (Income, Fits my [...]

Decision: Find a Mate Strategy

Few decisions fire up the soul as much as our choice of a life mate.  However, our success on this decision is often determined by how well we make another, our “Find a Mate Strategy”.  It’s obvious where and how we search for a mate will have a big impact on the outcome we obtain.  [...]

Why Life before Strategy?

Several folks who have experience with the business use of Decision Driven® methods (Strategy, Design, Innovation, Architecture) have wondered why I launched Decision Driven® Life before Strategy.  Obviously, businesses are used to paying for tools that help them succeed; individuals who may occasionally buy a self-help book or attend a life skills workshop are less [...]

Life Vision: Decision Context

A well-framed life vision can guide and influence us as we face other decisions in life