Improve Your Daily Decisions(Life & Finance).
Your decisions have so many things to do with your life. What you achieve or failed to achieve are based on your decisions. Doing more things that work and understanding that long time value is important than short time enjoyment will affect our choices and decisions and this influences how we position ourselves.
We might believe that products are bought because of the quality and what they are, but the fact is we buy things because of where they are. If you go to a superstore, you seem to buy things that are on the upper side of the shelf than the lower side. This is because they are on the sight level.
According to the New York Times, 45 per cent of Coca-Cola sales come from the eye-level display. This is just about products in stores. The same applies to our everyday life. Life places choice for us on our eye level. However, something must be the options we see and something must be the default choices we make. This default choice will determine the result we get in every area of life.
Plan your default
As adults, we all have the right to everything we want at a time. I can decide to round my table with bottles of Gins right now but I currently have a long jar filled with a smoothie. I do not have alcohol around me here, but I have the freedom to walk down to any close by store to get myself a beer, but I have a default choice of smoothie or water. There is nothing wrong with drinking beer, but I provided myself with a better alternative and I have no reason to go get it now.
How does your default decision affect your life?
According to the result of behavioural research, immediate satisfaction with everything makes you spend more money over the habit of understanding long-term benefits.
If you place alcohol around your kitchen and fridge, you will probably drink more alcohol every day.
If you place your phone next to your bed, checking social media or messages will be the first thing you do when you wake up. And all these can also have a positive side. If you have a bottle of water around your desk, you will probably drink more water.
I stocked up with a house with bananas recently and I eat bananas more than before. So most time, our environment determines the choices we make.
How to improve your default decisions
Choose simple.
It is hard to concentrate when you are in a crowded environment. You can't eat healthy when you fill your home with junk and unhealthy food. It is hard to study and concentrate when you place yourself on so many tasks at once. Your finance cannot be stable when you want to get all the recent gadgets and fashion products that come to the market. The solution is simple, choose simple and eliminate too many options.
If Coca-cola can sell more because of the eye-level display, then you adopt the same strategy. Create the environment visuals that will keep you actively working on the right things and keeping your Todos alive.
The world is not designed to favour anybody. Your decisions are the only things that can favour you. The cigarette company want the entire humans to smoke daily. While you plan to lose weight, the company that sells red meats and chips wants you to keep buying their products daily. The Apple company wants you to change your device as they release new products. So, you just need to always pick the right default decisions that will give you an excellent result.
Try to question everything before you accept. You are the architect of your life and your decisions will always give you results, either good or bad. Your environment shapes your choices and habit, but you can fix the environment and make choices with good habits.
Build your environment to make the right decisions.
My name is @tykee (Balogun Michael), a software engineer/content writer and the founder of Meshboc Limited. I use my content to share my opinions on tech, lifestyle, and finance.
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