5 Strategies to Make a Decision

POWERFUL LIVING, POWERFUL YOU This Week's Topic: 5 Strategies to Make a Decision Links Margaret's Website More About Margaret Coaching Teleclasses Margaret's Writing Margaret in the News Join Our Mailing List Join LinkedIn Network of Friends Link to Margaret's Blog In the News & Upcoming Events Welcome to our new subscribers! You inspire me to keep writing. Please keep forwarding the newsletter along. Thank you for sharing this column with your friends around the world. Article College Connection Magzine a publication of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch "Navigating change: a roadmap to independence" This Week's Topic: 5 Strategies to Make a Decision Dear Friend, "It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped." ~Anthony Robbins Have you ever needed to make a difficult decision, and you are not sure what to do? Well, I sure have! Here are five strategies to help you make your next decision: 1. Be Timely. Give yourself a deadline. Be it ten minutes or ten days you must have an end point when your decision is made. Set your deadline before you even begin to weigh your options. 2. Brainstorm. What are all of the possible solutions? Write them down. Something may sound improbable when said, but when you read the option it may be the best. As you brainstorm don't eliminate anything. Lay out the various options on a piece of paper. 3. Eliminate what doesn't work. Consider the options thoroughly. Refer to your notes, notice your feelings and your thoughts around each solution and then pare down to two or three options. Continue to review each option until you've arrived at your decision. Then proceed to strategy #4. 4. Does it Feel Right? Take time for a "gut check." If it doesn't feel right return to strategy #3. 5. Look forward not backward. Now that you have made the decision look forward not back. We can always second guess our selection, but once you've made it go with it. Be strong and confident in your decision making process. Make It Happen This week when you are faced with a difficult decision use these five strategies to arrive at a decision. To ensure you receive our newsletter each week, add Margaret@MargaretPundmann.com to your address book or your approved list of senders. Blessings to you, Margaret. P.S. Encourage your friends, family, and colleagues by sharing this newsletter with them and invite them to subscribe! Direct them to www.MargaretPundmann.com where they can sign up. Margaret Pundmann is a life and business coach, speaker, and author of numerous articles on living your most powerful life. Stay tuned, Margaret's first book for emerging women will be available for pre-order in the coming weeks. Please feel free to forward the "Powerful Living, Powerful You" newsletter to friends and colleagues, but please forward in its entirety. The "Powerful Living, Powerful You" newsletter is written and distributed by Emerge Enterprise. Copyright © 2008 Margaret Pundmann. All rights reserved. www.MargaretPundmann.com.

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