• Zero-Based Thinking: Reconsider Negative Decisions

    by Alexander Becker on September 03, 2006 | Link

    Revisit what you once negated. Reconsider your absolute rejections. Remember the passion you deploy when you express your incompatibilities and your differences.

    Compare the process of making a positive decision with the process of making a negative decision. Most positive, accepting conclusions are reactive to external invitations or offers while negative, rejecting conclusions are actively expressing, reflecting, and revealing the way you make up your mind.

    Reconsider your absolute rejections. What made you really decide the way you did? The goal is not to change your decisions after the fact but to learn from definite considerations. Examine what made you conclude and eventually decide the way you did.

    Zero-based thinking, as written about by Brian Tracy, is usually asking the question:

    Knowing what I now know, would I get into this business, job, or situation again?

    • If the answer is yes, continue and improve;
    • If the answer is no, get out of the situation as soon as possible and start from scratch.

    Apply reversed zero-based thinking: Knowing what you know now, would you again get out of that situation? What could have changed your decision?

    In the majority of cases, you begin to understand only afterwards why you absolutely had to get out of a particular situation. There are few negative, rejecting decisions that, in hindsight, turn out to be completely wrong. Most negative issues are going through a profound reflective process and are -- because of their potential impact -- often past due. You finally decide because you thoroughly consider everything.

    Rediscover the points that led you to your definite answers. You will learn a great deal about your own judgement by looking at your nos.

    Positive decisions are often the results of giving in in one way or the other, they are accepted rather than consciously reflected and thought to conclusion.

    On the other hand, negative decisions, rejections, are in virtually all instances, consciously made and carefully balanced with the pros and the cons. In addition, the negative conclusions are often emotionally backed up and supported by the hard facts surrounding them: You just know that you have to quit and when you finally do, you are gone through the most inquiring internal review possible.

    Negative resolutions are far easier to reach than positive decisions, knowing to get out of a situation is more evident than convincing yourself to get into something. It's the implementation that turns out to be the opposite: Getting out as soon as possible is much harder to do than it is to recognize the need to leave in the first place.

    Decide with clarity and resolution when it comes to positive, approving considerations. Decide definitely and accept as passionately as you reject what you dislike or find yourself incompatible with.

    Finally, do not waste the momentum of quitting, instead, use it to propel yourself forward.

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