I used to think that every decision could be made logically, until I looked back and realised that all my best ones were made in a different way!
They were the decisions that felt completely right - even if they looked brave or risky to others.
They took me on gap years and solo travel adventures, led me to reapply for Marketing training schemes when I didn’t make it the first time, helped me leave a job I loved (twice) to explore a new path, and so much more.
But for a long time, I couldn’t articulate how I made them.
Decision making is a critical skill - our life is a series of them.
We’re constantly navigating options and choices - big and small. We come to forks in the road, we decide what to say yes or no to, we need to figure out if something (or someone) is right for us - or not.
And yet no one really teaches us how to in the way that works for us. There’s standard advice - to make a list of pros and cons, or to trust our gut - but our mind can always see both sides of a situation, and some of us have a different inner compass.
Luckily, each of us has a built-in way of making great decisions - we just need to find it, get to know it and learn to trust it.
And we can do that by harnessing the clarity of hindsight.
When we look back, we can see the path we’ve taken and the decisions we’ve made, and we can learn from our experience.
We can ask ourselves:
When did we make our best decisions, and how did we make them?
When did we make decisions in a different way, and how did that work out?
What can we learn about what we need to choose well?
When there’s a big decision ahead of us it can be easy to feel we don’t have the answer, but we really do if we look back to learn from our own experience, and build trust in our own inner compass.
What have been your best decisions?
And how did you make them?
Wishing you a week of connecting with your inner compass,
