Big Decisions: 3 Principles

So, 2 years ago I was talking to a friend who was also my teammate in AIESEC Central America South (Panama and Costa Rica), where I was working on External Relations at the time. The topic: The future, decisions, what to do.

In the conversation I learned some things that later I used as principles for making tough decisions in my life.

If you are good, you will be good wherever you go. Don't worry too much.

Yesterday I had a phone call again with other friend in a similar situation. This made me remind of those principles. He encouraged me to share them in this blog as they might be useful for other people in other places.

They are 3 simple principles:

• Good People is Good People Wherever They Go: It is not your decision that will define how happy, successful, lucky or positive your jorney will be. If you are good at what you do you will find your way wherever you go, no matter how difficult or easy, you will will make it positive, or you will stagnate if you are mediocre. This release the pressure as there is no good or bad decisions. They all have the potential to be the best decision in your life if you have the attitude to let them become.

• Make sure you like your options and what they bring to you: Would you be happy if you go for any of your options? Would you be OK with all the possibilities in the future that an option brings to you? Do they make sense in the longer run and they lead to what you want to be and where you want to be in life? If so, then keep them as options. If you won't feel happy with one of them coming true then discard it. This gives you satisfaction that whatever your final decision is, it leads to something you are comfortable with.

• Go for the one that you can only do now: Usually one of those decisions are things that we can only do there and then. If so, go for that one as the others you will always be able to come back and consider them.

When a decision is made, just put your mind and heart in going after what you decided and forget about the other options as they were screened using these 3 principles.