Making desisions can be tricky. One way to help you make decisions is a T chart to weigh the pro’s and con’s. Pro’s are advantages of a situation and con’s are the disadvantages of a given situation. For example – say you were looking at a certain way of advertising your new business in the newspaper, you could use the T chart method to help you list the positives and the negatives of this method of advertising. The ultimate goal is having in black and white all of the positives and negatives in a situation. If the pro’s outnumber the cons it could be a good descision. If the con’s outweight the pro’s it could blow up in your face
A pro is something that will benefit you, anything positive that is associated with a decision or a choice. A con is the opposite, the negatives, draw backs.
Divide a paper in half, on one half list all of the positives ex.
lots of people see it
make your business look more legitimate
reach a new clients
On the other half of the paper, list all of the negatives ex.
lots of useless phone calls associated with your ad
costs money gives competitors an idea of where you stand
You continue listing all of your ideas on the subject, you could even ask trusted people their opinion and list that too.
Be careful – because you could have one extremely good pro that will outweigh a few little cons. Somethings are just worth a risk.