Learn to make decisions: take the reins of your life

There are many situations in which we have to take decisionsSome decisions are irrelevant, like the clothes we wear every day, and others are very important and can determine the course of our life, such as professional career, the choice of a couple, etc.

And in between we have another cluster of decisions as the destination of the holidays, the car that we bought, etc. Every day we face many decisions, there are many options that we face, but do we know how to make decisions? Are we responsible for the reins of our lives?

Why is it hard for us to make decisions?

Making a decision is one of the most difficult actions we face. For many people to make a decision, however irrelevant it may be complicated, opting for an option implies giving up the other, and since normally the two options have good things, this is what complicates the decision-making process.

Choosing between two desserts implies choosing one, but renouncing the other. When we do not like the decision is simple, but if the two desserts we like a lot, things get complicated. Choose a dessert is irrelevant, but the same thing happens with the relevant decisions, we have two or more options before a decision, all of them with favorable or pleasant things for us, to choose one of them, to renounce the others. With it we leave behind something that pleases us or is favorable to us.

Learning to make decisions

Learn to take decisions It means taking control of our lives. When a person makes decisions is the owner of his life is responsible for their path and owner of their destiny. Learning to make decisions is very important for happiness and personal well-being. Although it can be difficult to choose between several alternatives and, above all, to renounce others, when you decide and know what you want, you can be happy, as you follow the path you have decided.

Making a decision can be complicated, but learning to make decisions is the key to our destiny and the key to our happiness.

To learn how to make decisions, it is very important to overcome the fear of making mistakes and to remain in our decision, learning and enjoying the path we have taken. What stops us on many occasions is the fear of making mistakes because what we renounce is also favorable for us, we must listen to our intuition to our heart and learn to decide. The only right decision is the one that makes us happy.

Tips for learning to make decisions

Making a decision can be difficult for many people, especially those who are hesitant. Let's see some tips that can help us:

1. In the case of a minor decision, irrelevant, how to choose clothes, dessert, etc. close your eyes and do not give many turns decides the first thing that comes to mind, start to pay attention to your intuition.

2. With more important decisions It is good to follow a process that helps us look inside ourselves and decide what we really want. For it:

- Write down the different options in a list.
- For each option write down the pros and cons.
- Then write down what you like and what not of each option. What would make you happy and what would not.
- Value and decide.

3. Once you have decided to focus on your decision, enjoy the chosen path and learn. Every choice supposes learning and it is a process.

Celia Rodríguez Ruiz. Clinical health psychologist. Specialist in pedagogy and child and youth psychology. Director of Educa and Learn. Author of the collection Stimulate Reading and Writing Processes.

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