This is something I personally struggle with and as a couple of readers asked me to do a post on this, I figured i'd tackle it. If you have a trait or person you'd like me to dissect, shoot me an e-mail via the Alpha-traits.com contact page.

When I say I struggle with decision making, I don't mean I spend 20 minutes deciding which colour socks to put on in the morning, I mean I struggle with the big decisions. The tough ones. The life changing ones.

The thing about big decisions is there are always unknowns involved. Usually, that's when decisions get tricky. If you can't figure out the consequences of your decisions, you may as well flip a coin to decide as it's just going to be guess work anyway!

A tough decision I had to make recently involved an fundraising expedition to Mount Everest I'd signed up for. I hadn't reached the target necessary to go and I had to make the decision to either put in £1.5K of my own funds or cancel, losing all the funds I'd already raised.

In the end, I decided not to go. I'm not sure how my decision will effect the future, only time will tell. However, I gave it a lot of thought and used some of the methods that Churchill would have used and that is the best I could've done.

Winston brown churchill complex variables 9th edition pdf led Great Britain triumphantly through some of the darkest years the world has ever seen - World War II. Like many wartime leaders, Churchill had to make a lot of difficult decisions, there was no way around it.

Perhaps one of the toughest decisions facing Churchill arose in the summer of 1940 when France surrendered to Germany, leaving the English Channel the last barrier of defence between Britain and the Nazi's. Although the French army was crippled, their navy was surprising strong. The Nazi's were preparing to capture this Navy and, if they were successful, would leave this British incredible vulnerable to attack and invasion.

Churchill's decision: trust the French would never let the ships cross over to Nazi hands or destroy the fleet himself.

On 3rd July 1940, the order was given to attack the French fleet, claiming over 1300 French sailor's lives. It was a decision that would resonate throughout history and to this day the French remember it as "France's Pearl Harbour".