Jul
17
Decision-Making: Guide to Making a Tough Decision
Filed Under Life Coaching, Mental Healing, Stress Remedies
When it comes to making decisions that take you out of your comfort zone, it can really be emotionally trying.
The only way around those decisions is to be untrue to your beliefs. And that’s an approach you most likely want to avoid. Your conscience is bound to eat away at you if you go that route.
Instead, try this process to help you make those tough decisions with confidence:
- Weigh the alternative. When a tough decision looms overhead, you know there’s always an alternative. It’s probably easier to go with that alternative, and save yourself the stress. But at what cost?
- If you’re honest with yourself, you’ll realize that the tough decision may be the best decision from a moral standpoint. It’s hard to go wrong when you go the moral route!
- Avoid making decisions that you know may rest on your conscience forever. Those make it difficult to live with true peace of mind.
- Consider the outcome. Usually, difficult decisions work out for the better in the end. But what you’re worried about is those who may not be pleased with the decision. The toss up is between two glaring options. Do you continue in a less than favorable situation? Or do you decide to make a change for the better?
- A great way to justify making a hard decision is to look at the outcome. Do you see yourself in a more positive situation after you make this decision? Can you envision life being less stressful?
- Always remember what you’re trying to achieve in life. Make your decisions based on your goals, whether big or small.
I encourage you to focus on accomplishing your most-desired goals. Avoid living according to the goals of others if you want to be truly happy.