Tony-Robbins_The-Four-Rules-For-Decision-Making-1

The speaker outlines four rules for decision-making. Rule one emphasizes making important decisions on paper to avoid mental looping and stress. Rule two stresses clarity on desired outcomes, reasons, and evidence of achievement. Rule three advises making decisions based on probability, not waiting for total certainty. Rule four highlights the importance of clarifying the order of importance among desired outcomes to facilitate decision-making. So let's walk through these three things. First, what are the four rules to decision making? Really simple, but really important. Rule number one, all important or difficult decisions must be made on paper. I'll say that again. All, all important or difficult decisions must be made on paper. Don't do it in your head, because when you're trying to do it in your head and it's that important, you're gonna do what I call looping. You ever done that? You start to think of something and you go, yeah, that's a good idea, but what if this happens? Then you go, well, what if I do that? And you start to think about that and you go, yeah, but what if this happens? Well, what if I do this? And then you go back to the first option and you keep running around your head over and over again, looping it around, and you don't really get any resolution. And what it does is it adds stress and it adds pressure to you. And then when you're trying to finally relax, you know you have these decisions looming out there and you start thinking about it again, you don't get the relaxing time and you feel like you have no time. Remember, a lot of times you feel like you have no time because you're using your mind in a way that creates pressure. Get the pressure out of you by doing this stuff on paper. Rule two, be clear about what it is you really want and why you want it. You've got to be clear about your outcome and your purpose. Because even if you say, okay, here's what I want, and then you start to make the decision, you may forget the reasons behind it. And the why is what will get you to follow through on your decision. So RPM still comes into play here as you can probably figure out. And not only do you wanna know what it is you really want, what's your outcome and why you want it, but how will you know when you're getting it? You know, what's your evidence procedure? What do you have to see or hear or taste or touch or smell or be able to measure to know, you know what, I am getting that outcome? Because again, sometimes you're winning and you feel like you're losing because you don't have a way to keep a score. You might say, well, I want, you know, my outcome is to have more money. Well, you could do that by getting one more dollar. How will you know when you quote, have more money? You wanna get as specific as possible about what you want, why you want it, and how you'll know when you're getting it. That's rule number two. Rule three, remember, decisions are based on probability. Don't wait for absolute total certainty. You'll almost never get it. In most cases, you have to give it to yourself. And this six-step process I'm gonna walk you through will give you an immense amount of certainty, but it's still based on probability and remember that. Four, remember all decision-making is, is value clarification. See, what I mean by that is, many times it's hard to make a decision because you don't just have one outcome, but you have lots of outcomes that you're gonna try and achieve simultaneously. And you're gonna have to decide, of all these things I want, what's really number one for me? What's number two? What's number three? Because sometimes you're not gonna get them all. But the reason you're not making a decision is because you're being unrealistic. Maybe you can get the top three. Wouldn't that be phenomenal? Or maybe you can get one, three, four, and five. Maybe that's a useful thing. So you've got to be clear about what is the order of the outcomes you want. If you've got more than one thing, just cut aside, is it more important to me to sleep till noon or more important to me to earn this kind of money? What'll help you decide that is, why do you want the money? Why do you wanna sleep till noon? Say, well, money allow me to change my life, change the people I care about, make a difference, start this orphanage, do X, Y, and Z, travel around the world. Why don't I wanna sleep till noon? I feel good. Well now, which one's more important? You see, by knowing the why, it's easier to clarify which is more important than another when you're designing an outcome. That's why that step is really important. So what are the four rules? All important decisions, difficult decisions must be made on, that's right, paper. Number two, be clear. What do you want and why do you want it and how will you know when you're getting it? Number three, don't wait for absolute certainty. Make the best decision based on probability. If you're wrong, you'll learn something, you'll use experience, you'll make a new decision, you'll move on quicker. Four, make sure you clarify the order of importance on any outcomes you come up with.