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HOW DO YOU MAKE YOUR DECISIONS?
Are you a rational decision-maker who carefully weighs up the pros and cons before taking your next step? Or are you an impulse follower that listens to her heart to make the right move?
The best decision-making model I have come across, that I now use for all my training and advice sessions, is a combination of rational and emotional. The first step is to define your decision into single options. For example, "Shall I continue working in administration or shall I go back to school to study as a Dental Assistant?" becomes "Whether to become a Dental Assistant?"
Divide the rest of the page into two columns, named Pros and Cons. List all the pros and cons you can think of for this one decision. If there is a person whose opinion you feel is a vital part of your decision making, include them in the list. Now go back through and mark each Pro and Con with a score out of 10. Remember to mark these using your own values and interests. Total these at the bottom of the page and any landslide victories should give you the confidence to start an action plan and move forward.
Being somone who just made it over from negative thinking to positive thinking, I would have to say i agree with the member. I think it is a human law to make a list mentally. But it is somethin else when you write those thoughts down, when you see somthing depending how bad you want your decision to be good and correct. If you just think about the situation that's not enough sometimes. You should try what the member recommended, start an action plan and move ahead.
LadyB
I would love to add "Believe in your decision". I know that kinda takes away from the subject but it really does not. Once you make your mind up to do somthin there will be obstacles that are waiting for you. But please just believe and you will achieve. I will not lie there will be some things that will make you feel like dang? Did i make the right choice? Am i doing the right thing? If you followed the steps given to you already along with a strong belief system, I promise Victory. I am still learning this law of life right now. There are some things happening to me that don't look good and don't feel good. But i have a goal and god has given me a vision. So despite any of my afflictions i believe that I will overcome some how some way. So remember (to the mothers that feel like being good does not pay) You gotta believe in it first before you can even make a decision on which direction to take.
I love yall with all of me. And I'm still fighting right with you.
LadyB