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DECIDOFOBIA AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Summary

"Our doubts are our traitors, and they make us lose the good that we could often gain by fear of trying"

William Shakespeare

It is well understood that sustainable development is the ability of a society to maintain its activities indefinitely without first exhausting the resources it uses to carry them out and without compromising future generations. A simple, understandable definition, but is it really easy to decide to practice or implement sustainable development in our society, in our home, in our workplace, oneself? There is something called decidophobia. It is one of the factors that limits a person. to implement sustainable development.

At work it is thought that it will not be seen well, and there is fear of a retaliation, or else the low probability of success gives fear of making a decision and lives better in it.

The argument

Decidephobia is the fear of making a decision, this, a clear example is recycling as many of the entrepreneurs have the vision to demand compliance with the separation of waste within the company.

Most people unfortunately suffer from decidophobia. They spend their lives stumbling from one idea to another, they would like to know with certainty the best option that will lead them to success, but it is not possible, you have to take the risk, it is imperative for success to make decisions effectively, that is, to quickly but analyzed in a relatively short time. A very close friend experienced the consequence of desidophobia.

The director, in the monthly meeting with the partners, establishes objectives, of which none deals with or even makes reference, to sustainable development, concerned with the environmental impact, caused by the pollutants produced by the organization, is in a crossroads. On the one hand, to ignore and adhere to the objectives established by the bosses or have the initiative and undertake action plans that reduce environmental impacts, which will generate an assigned budget cost.

The director decides to adhere absolutely to the objectives, two months passed and a contingency arose since dangerous waste was leaking underground to a house 200 meters from the factory, the director was fired.

Bad luck ?, definitely not, it is just one of the possible consequences that it had for the fear of making a decision of your own. Choosing to implement sustainable development has many advantages, more significant than the cost of realizing them.

Theory

Who is not afraid to make decisions?

Most of us have once feared making decisions, but to lose fear you have to believe in us, in our values and principles. Above all to value us and give us the necessary importance.

When one is going to make a decision, there is always fear of losing, it is generally thought that a loss will make us feel very bad, but it has been analyzed that when a person makes a decision and for whatever reason does not go well, that loss does not On the contrary, he thinks he is a better person because he accepts his mistakes and at the same time makes important decisions for the next proposal.

What is decidophobia?

Joyce Meyer in 2014 comments that many people struggle with a powerful fear of making a bad decision or making the wrong choice, and that is why they do not make any decisions at all, they remain indecisive. Mentally they review their options over and over again; however, they never find one to settle for. They want a guarantee of perfection before they are willing to take action, but sadly, unless we take risks, we will never decide anything at all.

Like most fears, the fear of making mistakes has a name. And it is called "decidophobia". It is an overwhelming and irrational fear of making decisions. People who have a phobia do not make decisions. The good news is that there is a cure for this fear and it is called “do it even with fear”, feel the fear and do it anyway.

Wasted time, or even a wasted life, is in some ways not as scary to the undecided person as making a mistake. Individuals with a "perfectionist" streak may be especially prone to this fear. At the foundation of their temperament is a desire to be perfect, and it often takes many years of suffering to come to grips with the reality that we all make mistakes. A mistake is an event, not a person. We may make mistakes, but we are not mistakes.

Fear of decision making?

It is a new type of fear, called decidophobia, revealed by Walter Kaufmann in 1973, who uses neologism to replace "fear of autonomy."

Long decisions increase the commitment to implement them. There is a big difference between making a decision and implementing it.

A decision usually consists of three stages:

1.- The recognition of a need: feeling of dissatisfaction with oneself; feeling of emptiness or need.

2.-The decision to change, to fill the gap or the need;

3.- Conscious dedication to implement the decision.

Sustainable development

Karel Mulder in 2010 mentions that it is a development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

The danger of depletion of some of the resources used massively in today's society is beginning to be considered possible, due to the enormous population growth and the general increase in per capita consumption that characterizes what is usually understood as development.

José Luis Ángel Vega in 2009 interprets that the acceptance that the concepts of sustainability and sustainable development currently enjoy has made them almost a paradigm under which it is a question of channeling economic activity within environmental limits and social justice.

This paradigm seems to have absorbed other concepts such as CSR, to the point that it is not clear in the programs of institutional or private organizations whether CSR is a part of sustainable development, a less evolved stage or a strategy to achieve it.

The concept of sustainable development nation with a strong ecological orientation. The report of the club of rome the limits of growth (1972) generated an extensive controversy about the growth model that humanity could afford in view of the environmental effects caused by the current model and the consequences that its maintenance would foresee. Then came the proposal of zero growth, based on the idea that the lower the growth rate the lower the consumption of natural resources, spills or pollution is the environmental impact.

Sustainable development that type of development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs (Brundtland report, 1987)

conclusion

Decidephobia is a barrier that people create, a justification for not implementing sustainability, fear that sooner or later you face or learn to live with that fear of failure, it is better to live with the truth than to live humiliated in uncertainty, sustainability on the other Some already integrate them as a requirement, as a commercial means, but it really is the opportunity and perhaps the only one to prevent the self-destruction of humanity, we are all invited, we all know what happens to the planet but nobody does anything.

Steve Maraboli said "the purpose of fear is to improve your consciousness but not to stop your progress." Fear is part of every human being, it will never go away but if you can decide and live with it, you can continue with progress but taking care of the environment, let us remember that in order to advance you do not have to destroy nature.

Sustainable human being, he is the one who breaks the paradigm of himself and in his decisions finds the perfect balance between the economy, the social and the ecological.

Bibliography

Live bravely, face whatever, even with fear. Author Joyce Meyer, I am a New York Times salesperson. 2014.Decidophobia: Fear of decision-making. Decidophobia: Fear of decision-making, María Cruz Chacón Hernández.

Sustainable development for engineers, Karel Mulder, 2010, Univ. Politèc. de Catalunya.

Social responsibility and the principles of sustainable development as theoretical foundations of the company's social information, José Luis Ángel Vega, 2009, ESIC Editorial