Introduction to Enhance Decision-Making Skills with In-Flow Interventions Part One

Are you stuck? Are you unsure about your choices? Think of this exploration and discovery of self as a classroom, where the purposes are to learn, understand, conceive, and put into action/practice what you learned. There is no one-stop shop or one-size-fits-all. There isn’t an easy way to do anything when it comes to changing long-established habits, patterns, or sense of self, belief systems, and mindsets. They require a daily commitment to yourself to do it differently. Enhanced decision-making is not just about making 'better' choices, but about aligning choices with your authentic self and values. Congratulate and commend yourself for recognizing the need to move towards change.

As your truth is revealed, your decisions become clearer and sharper, and you are complete in your understanding of decisions and their consequences. The decisions you make could be, and most often are, a system of support beams to hold up your sense of self, your belief systems, and mindsets. Right off the bat, I can tell you that what you endeavor to “hold up” may be the thing(s) that hold you back, and hold you down. Therefore, to access enhancements, you must be willing to challenge and call into question your sense of self, belief systems, and mindsets.

Enhancing decision-making skills will require extracting information about what we think about ourselves, what we want for ourselves, and the why(s) to both. Since our mind becomes a construct of life experiences and how we receive and perceive those experiences, it stands to reason that our decisions are the result.

The enhancement addressed here concerns decisions affecting your relationship with yourself and others. The enhancement skills discussed here make a difference in a happy and healthy life. They lead to a sense of self and an awareness of self that changes the trajectory of personal and professional relationships. To the extent that we have more peace, patience, and purpose (a decided path for our life).

The extraction of information from yourself may require assistance. A link will be at the bottom of this page to schedule a time with me to help with the self-examination.

Step 1: Determine what you want to change. This could be several things: relationships, job, attitude, self-confidence, or self-esteem. What situations trigger the need or desire to change or enhance decision-making skills? Be as specific as possible.

Step 2: Identifying what is not the same as the why. Step 2 is a deeper examination that often brings discomfort, discontent, and disinformation. There are self-defenses we build around our why(s). They are well-guarded, with years of experience and practice of manipulation, locking you into a pattern of thinking that keeps you with a false sense of security, because it's what you think has been working for you. So, discovering why you are triggered by the need or desire to change or enhance decision-making skills mandates you approach it from places or ways of thinking previously unused or unexplored.

Step 3: Create a different relationship with yourself. This means that you should begin to change your routine or approach to what seems to be your normal. Shake yourself loose and venture to do things that will inform and enlighten you. For example, try a different dish to discover a new taste, or read a different kind of book that forces you out of your comfort zone, or make your bed before you shower. Remapping or changing established routes/patterns helps train us to shift our center. In other words, be flexible.

In part two, the more informed self will be transformed into a person who will recognize opportunities to train towards enhanced decision-making skills.

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