Identify your options

 

Whenever it is you want to do - whether it’s something specific, like losing kilos or finding a part time job, growing your own vegetables or learning to dance or something more general, such as travel or be more healthy or learn new languages- more often than not there’s more than one way to achieve it. You have a choice. Identifying a range of options will stretch you beyond your usual way of thinking. Because positive thinking Broadens and opens up possibilities and ideas. Too often, though, you might spend ages agonising over the pros and cons of each option: you might over think the situation. How you might wonder, do you know that you’ll be choosing the best option, that you will definitely be making the “right” choice and if it doesn’t, that you won’t regret having made a different decision? Quite simply, you don’t, and won’t. When you make a decision, you can never know for sure that it’s going to turn out well. But with some thought and positive action, you can make it more likely. 

Practice 

For each option, ask yourself some questions and write down your answers. 

• What are the pros and cons for each option? 
• What skills, strengths and resources do you currently have that could be helpful for each option? 
• Who could help? 

Accept uncertainty; make a choice despite possible unknowns. 

Make a well informed decision, but know that the pursuit of more information can be a way off a decision. Trust your intuition. 

By Lori from Lifesuccessnz xx