Here’s two ways to help you make a decision you can live with – and perhaps have more ease and fun in making that choice.
First, use Mark Reiter and Richard Sandomir’s (taken out of the sports world) approach to winnowing down your top choices. In short. bracketize your options. This a fun way to get to know someone you thought you knew well too. Read “The Enlightened Bracketologist: The Final Four of Everything."
Notes the authors, "Bracketology—the practice of parsing people, places, and things into discrete one-on-one matchups to determine which of the two is superior or preferable—works because it is simple. What could be simpler then breaking down a choice into either/or, black or white, this one or that one?"
On their site you can download a form to get you started.
In Smart Choices you can learn about the most common mistakes we make in choosing between alternatives, some that seem obvious, and how to avoid them. Result? Fewer post-decision regrets - and perhaps a better life.
