Your decisions determine the direction and quality of your life.
Your decisions create the journey of your life. And while nobody plans to complicate their life with bad decisions, far too many people have no plan to make good decisions.
Improve your life experience and stop making bad decisions by integrating five questions into the everyday decisions you make, big or small.
You’ll discover how to:
- – Avoid selling yourself on bad ideas and making quick decisions when time is short. Find truth and clarity in any tricky decision.
- – Improve relationships and heal division through better decisions.
- – Discover the reasons behind your decisions so you can move forward with positive changes.
- – Consider the long-term impact of your choices so you can write a life story worth celebrating.
- – Easily identify any red flags that signal which decisions may result in future regrets.
We’re all human and going through stuff every day.
Think about the pandemic we are currently experiencing. Even in our personal lives, this pandemic has caused havoc. I have a saying: “Life is a journey!!” And it’s so true for me.
I found when I have to make a decision that will affect my marriage, for example, working away from home, I must plan it very well in advance. I will ask myself these questions.
- – In what way will it affect my husband?
- – How many meals do I need to prepare for him?
- – How long will I be away for?
- – Does it fit into my schedule?
- – Who will benefit from it?
When I fly out to go and do work in another town, I always feel like I have left something behind. I miss my husband’s hand holding mine; I miss his smile and I just miss him (my second skin).
It is lovely to be married to a loving, Christian husband that support’s me in everything I do. He plays such a big role in my life. He taught me not to make decisions based on an emotional feeling. Believe me, it helps me a lot. I always check my emotions before making a decision and moving forward with anything in my life.
Learn from your decisions.
Decision-making is something that greatly affects your direction in life. Sometimes we look back and think about the bad decisions we’ve made and can’t change. You can’t turn back time and change your decisions. Buuuuuut you can ask yourself: What have I learned from that bad decision I made? And, how do I save myself from making the same mistake.
One of my favorite questions: What can I learn from my experience?
- – How did you feel and/or what was your emotional state when you made the decision?
- – How did you relate to your decision and/or those of others?
- – Did you make the decision under pressure? What do you keep in mind when making decisions under pressur?
- – How did your decisiont affect you personally?
- – Will your decision affect you in a negative way or positive way in the long term? Can you make a course correction?
You might get what your subconscious mind wants even if your conscious mind “wants” something else. Sometimes you may think you have made the right decision only to find out it wasn’t such a good move to make. How do you handle that? I have learned to make the best of the circumstance.
You will find it hard to fool your subconscious, which strives to give you what you really want. We often hear this “inner voice” telling us we are doing the wrong thing or “yes” you are doing the right thing. Trust it. Practice listening to your inner voice.
Consider:
I believe in God and that He is working in me no matter what I may feel or how the situation may look. Take time to purposely think right thoughts and speak them out loud as your confession – “call upon the Lord” as Moses, Aaron, and Samuel did (Ps99v6). Remember that God is delivering you, little by little. Don’t be discouraged. Be patient with yourself.
Avoid making important decisions on the spur of the moment. Read my blog 8 Killer Tips On How to Be More Productive on how to set boundaries and free up time to think about how you want to proceed with your life.
Do you need help making better decisions? Contact Cora for help.