Week 4: Tony Robbins — Be a “Good” Decision Maker

This week, I listened to a really good podcast by author and motivational speaker Tony Robbins. On the Jay Shetty podcast, he talked about leadership, happiness, and purpose. Robbins said the most important skill a leader can have is decision making. He said, “Choices are how we create our lives. It’s not your conditions — it’s your decisions that determine the quality of your life.” You can turn tough conditions into good ones with the right mindset, being around the right people, and making better decisions.

You can create the life you want by being a good decision maker.

He said there are three simple steps to becoming a good decision maker:

Decide — Make a decision.

Commit — Commit to your decision.

Resolve — Stick with your decision.

He said the best leaders are able to make a decision, even if they don’t have all the information. If the decision is the right one — great. If it’s not, recognize it and be willing to pivot as soon as possible

He created a 6 step decision making process:

O = Outcome — What do I want?

O = Options — What are your options?

C = Consequences — What are the upsides and downsides for each option?

E = Evaluate — What’s the probability of each consequence happening?

M = Mitigation — Can you mitigate the downsides by being creative?

R = Resolve — Stick with your decision.

He also said wisdom is being able to recognize the patterns in the world. People say all the time, “History repeats itself.” If history repeats itself, wisdom is learning to recognize those patterns early enough to make better choices when they show up again.

So, see the patterns in life, and be a good decision maker — even if you don’t have all the information or recognize all the patterns.