What would your life look like if you could go back in time and change your choice on five major decisions you made. The differences could be stunning.
Some of the poorer decisions you made 10 years ago or longer have led to your current situation in life.
You can lead a more satisfying life by making wise decisions. You can avoid making unwise decisions that would have a negative impact on your life.
Some of the reasons for making poor decisions are:
You don’t have all the right information. You may make a rash decision because you may not have the opportunity to find out all the facts. Taking a few minutes or even days to ask the right questions and do some research can help make your decisions much more effective.
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Your decisions are influenced by fear. Poor decisions are often based on fear. You may do anything to avoid feeling the physical sensations of fear.
- You make the best decisions when you are moving towards something, not just trying to avoid something. When you find yourself trying to avoid something, any thing that moves you away from feelings of fear are appealing. That is like picking a direction to move by closing your eyes and spinning around.
You don’t have a defined objective. You need an objective to make wise decisions. What do you need to consider when choosing your next meal? There are a variety of goals you can use.
- Convenience – what do you have available?
- Cost – how expensive are the choices?
- Health – what are the nutritional values?
- Appearance – what foods will help me look leaner?
- Comfort – what would feel good?
- Taste – what foods would be the best tasting?
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What are you trying to accomplish with your decision? From your options, what are the possible outcomes? How is your objective affected by those possible outcomes? Will you be helped or hindered in attaining your goals?
You let emotions control. A combination that rarely works are strong emotions and skilful decision-making. Your brain processes information and makes its decisions differently when under intense emotions. If you are going to make an important decision, it is best that you are calm, cool and collected.
You put comfort first. Our brains natural target is comfort. You tend to gravitate to unhealthy foods, sitting on the couch, watching TV or surfing the Internet.
- You will usually make poor long-term decision when comfort is your goal. If you know someone who lives life this way, you can see what is wrong with making immediate comfort the main goal.
- Progress and comfort are direct opposites. You will make quick progress in your life if you can bear a lot of discomfort. When you think of highly successful people, you see that each day they do things that the average person will pass on.
You don’t learn from your past mistakes. You can use all of your past mistakes to learn how to make wiser future decisions. Every poor decision you have made can teach you something.
What was your worst decision and what impact did it have on your life? You can see that making a few wiser decisions in the past could have made your life much different now.
It is not too late to start making wiser decisions. You can have a brighter future when you make beneficial decisions now.
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Michael
P.S. you know that living a life that is in balance is important. When you can balance your work, family, health, relationships, fitness and money, you feel better and can achieve your goals. You have the support of your family and friends which makes life worth living.
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