Do you ever find it hard to make choices? It can be stressful: choices are super-important to defining your life's path. How do you figure out what choices to make?
One answer is that how you make choices is important. If you're the kind of person who dives right in without ever looking back, you're not really choosing, which doesn't always turn out well. On the other hand, if you're the kind of person who endlessly thinks and re-thinks, you could get stuck in indecision.
Luckily, our creative brain is designed to help us strike the right balance. When we fit our choices into a creative process, we have a method that will help us to both think things through, and also move forward without regret.
Here are the steps I recommend:
1) First, be really clear on what motivates you to make this choice at all. If you don't know why you are doing something, you will never know what you should do. Imagine and visualize where you want to end up, and be sure that it's important to you.
2) As you consider your options, first think, then feel. Brainstorm your options, then get the information you need to build a "choice picture" that tells you what each option might end up looking like. After you've done that, tap into your feelings--how much do you like each of those choice pictures?
3) Clear out the distractions so you can tune into your deepest self. Listen for your inner voice. If it's in turmoil, you're just not ready to choose. Don't stop or run away, ask yourself "what's missing?" and solve it.
In the end, you will simply make a choice. However, if you've gone through this process, it will be a conscious choice that brings you closer to understanding yourself and the world. And that will keep your life's path pointing forward, not backward.
One answer is that how you make choices is important. If you're the kind of person who dives right in without ever looking back, you're not really choosing, which doesn't always turn out well. On the other hand, if you're the kind of person who endlessly thinks and re-thinks, you could get stuck in indecision.
Luckily, our creative brain is designed to help us strike the right balance. When we fit our choices into a creative process, we have a method that will help us to both think things through, and also move forward without regret. Here are the steps I recommend:
1) First, be really clear on what motivates you to make this choice at all. If you don't know why you are doing something, you will never know what you should do. Imagine and visualize where you want to end up, and be sure that it's important to you.
2) As you consider your options, first think, then feel. Brainstorm your options, then get the information you need to build a "choice picture" that tells you what each option might end up looking like. After you've done that, tap into your feelings--how much do you like each of those choice pictures?
3) Clear out the distractions so you can tune into your deepest self. Listen for your inner voice. If it's in turmoil, you're just not ready to choose. Don't stop or run away, ask yourself "what's missing?" and solve it.
In the end, you will simply make a choice. However, if you've gone through this process, it will be a conscious choice that brings you closer to understanding yourself and the world. And that will keep your life's path pointing forward, not backward.
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