Decision-Making
The Foundation of Good Choices: Knowing What You Stand For and Value
Beneath every good decision lies a foundation, and that foundation is knowing what you stand for and value.
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Decision-Making
The Danger of Outsourcing Your Most Important Life Choices to Friends and Family
When facing a difficult decision, the instinct to seek advice is natural and often healthy. But there's a cri…
Decision-Making
Taking Ownership and Responsibility for Your Own Personal Decisions
There is a profound difference between living a life that happens to you and living a life you create. The di…
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Why No One Else Can or Should Make Your Big Life Choices for You
When facing a big life choice — whether to leave a relationship, change careers, move across the world, or ma…
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How to Strategically Say No Without Feeling Guilty About Your Choices
Saying no is one of the most important decision-making skills a person can develop, and one of the hardest.
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How to Make Life Choices Without Needing to Be 100 Percent Certain
The demand for certainty is one of the great silent saboteurs of a well-lived life. We tell ourselves we'll d…
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The Futility of Seeking the "Right" Decision in a Complex World
There is a quiet assumption underlying most of our decision anxiety: that for any given choice, there exists…
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Embracing Uncertainty as a Permanent Part of the Decision-Making Process
Most people treat uncertainty as a temporary obstacle — a fog to be cleared away through enough research, tho…
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Finding Peace of Mind When Making Decisions in Uncertain Situations
Decision-making in uncertain situations is one of the most common sources of mental anguish. The racing thoug…
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How to Stop Obsessing Over the Perfect Option and Just Choose
You know the feeling: standing frozen before a decision, cycling through the same options again and again, un…
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The Beauty and Necessity of Making Imperfect Decisions in Life
We tend to view imperfect decisions as failures — compromises we settle for because we couldn't find somethin…
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A Guide to Making Better Decisions by Embracing the Messiness of Life
We often approach decision-making as if life were a tidy system that could be analysed cleanly and optimised…