The Decision Machine

"you need never fret over another difficult decision, your friend the Truthteller has the latest no fail technology and its your FREE, just for stopping by"

Sooner or later we all have to make decisions that just can't seem to be done easily. Perhaps we feel the stakes are too high. We have fears of the consequences of making the wrong choice. Not any longer amigos....

Here is the tested and 100% proven, absolutely best way to make great decisions. You will need however some technology to aid you. I strongly suggest a pen and paper.

Ok, here's how it works; remember that old idea of writing the pro's and cons of a decision down on a piece of paper. The idea was that after you listed the pros and cons, the list that was longest was the correct decision....WRONG! Good idea, that doesn't work.

The reason it doesn't work is because not every pro or con is equally weighted. Let's suppose that you are trying to decide whether to go to college or to get a job.
Now suppose that one of the cons to going to college is that you can't buy a car, right away. One of the pros is that if you go and graduate you will make twice as much money for the rest of your life. Which is more important? I'm not making a judgement call here. If you think having a car now is more important...so be it. My point is that we need to assign a value to each pro and con.

So amigos, what you should do is assign a mark between 1 and 10, with 1 being least important and 10 being most important to each pro and con. Now you can add up the numbers and voila, you will have made a great decision every time. Isn't that beautiful?

Here's a sample, just in case its clear as mud to you:

Decision: Should I send Eduardo all my money?

PRO'S:

1. It will make him really happy... 10 pts
2. I will no longer have to worry about money... 10 pts
3. He will do great things with it... 10 pts
4. Giving is better than receiving... 10 pts

Total points for Pro's: 40 pts

CON'S:

1. That jerk is trying to rip me off... 1 pt
2. He'll waste it on wine, women and himself... 10 pts
3. If even one sucker goes for it, he wins... 2 pts
4. I'd sooner cut of an arm than give him anything... 3 pts

Total points: 16 pts

Brilliant, you can now see that the pro's have 40 pts and the cons only 16 pts. The decision is obvious and I will notify my banker of the sudden influx of your money!

Now wasn't this worth the price of admission? I hope you can see why this is as close to bein infallible as any decision making technique can be. I wish I had known about this many years ago. And of course it is in keeping with the Truthteller philosophy of being fun and easy and over-flowing with abundance (at least for me).

CAVEAT: Sure as heck there will be one anal (pardon my French) uptight nerd who will debate with himself (or herself) for hours as to what point to assign to a pro or con.

Here's the neat part, the idea is to assign the points as quickly as possible and without much thought (easy for me to do). This works beautifully every time. It's just like in school when you had multiple choice questions, the first answer is almost always the right answer. Students who go back and second guess themselves invariably just mess it up. If you are really a worry wort then do it now, then leave it for a day and without looking at the previous day scores, try it again. You'll see....Eduardo is right!

Ok, class here is your assignment. Do questions 1-189 and questions 190-245. No, you fool, here at Happy School we don't do that. However, I would like you to print this article and save it for when you next need to make a decision. Give it others and they will also make great decisions. Any questions? Excellent...everyone passes with 100%.

Smile, it looks really good on you!

Eduardo

P.S. I have a confession to make! I have in the past used the old pros and cons method without the scoring system added. When using this with someone else and you want to influence their decision you just help them on either the pro or con side depending on where you want the decision to fall. The longer list wins remember? But that was my evil twin and I no longer would consider that moral or ethical....