Are you taking right decisions?

There has always been choice, in today's life you are clustered and bogged with so many choices for anything and everything.

Every aspect has become more challenging and people are forced or are influenced to take decisions.

It is getting more perplex and competitive and has started influencing even the family life of individuals. Today we live a life where a decision has to be made where will be the child be born, the hospital, the locality, the country and so on.

It’s fantastic to have two or more brilliant choices ahead of you. You might feel like you are between a rock and a hard place having to make this choice, but in fact it’s exactly the opposite.

Sometimes you have a choice between something ’safe’ and something which ‘can be great’. Sometimes, it’s a short-term over a long-term choice. If you’re making these decisions when you’re young it’s almost impossible to predict outcomes.

No one wants to be wrong after taking decisions. It is often found that people have trouble with making choices as they hate being wrong.

As they are afraid of the consequences of making wrong decisions. How do they know that they have truly found what they prefer, suppose they find something else is better and it is too late?

Making decisions sometimes means making a commitment to a choice and sticking with it, but often there is an opportunity to find out something new, either about oneself, or about another person or topic. Having an opportunity to find out something can make decisions fun. Most people get used to thinking of what they like. Soon, many things become habit.

The best advice is to cover all bases and make sure you have an alternative 'Plan B' in case 'Plan A' doesn’t work out.

It is good to seek advice in these situations, and to get support. But it’s important to choose a confidante who is objective and constructive, not someone who will impose their opinions on you or tell you what to do.

While we know that we should follow our passions, sometimes we come into situations where different passions conflict with each other and make it difficult to decide. In such cases, we should go where our passions unify.

You are facing the journey of life, which will see you change your world view countless times, and take you down all sorts of different paths - all of which will add to your wide experience of life and development of wisdom.

Look at the events in your life, especially the recent ones.

Can you see certain patterns in the events? Can you see where they are pointing to? The events that happen in your life often give you clues of the way to go.

Sometimes the events in our life give us a unique opportunity. They may open a door which normally would not.

You might fail, but the important thing is to give it a try. You can always learn from failure, perfect situation will never come.

The writer is an international adviser for business, economy and investments