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[BONUS EPISODE] Should I Follow My Head or My Heart: 5 Questions to Ask Before Making Decisions
Welcome back to The Clarence Stowers Leadership Podcast, a podcast about becoming 1% better every day. This podcast focuses on inspiring and equipping highly motivated and creative people to take decisive action to level up in all aspects of their lives while also producing their best work.
This week's Episode: Should I Follow My Head or My Heart: 5 Questions to Ask Before Making Decisions
You can read more about this episode on my website.
According to Mel Robbins, here are five questions to ask when making decisions.
5 Questions to Ask When Making Decisions
- Is the decision you're about to make help you develop your future or expand your life's possibilities? If it's a yes, then no matter how terrible it seems, the decision is a yes.
- Will this decision restrict, inhibit, or silence you? If so, the answer is no. No matter how easy the decision is, no matter how safe that decision is. The answer is no.
- Will this decision expand or limit my voice?
- Will this decision open the door to new possibilities or build a wall that prevents progress?
- Does it raise my voice, or does it silence me?
Remember, there's always a short-term and a long-term impact of the decision.
When making a decision, it's essential to think about its short-term and long-term impacts. The short-term consequences are the things that happen immediately after the decision. The long-term effects are the things that happen down the road, sometimes many years after the decision is made.
It's essential to think about both of these impacts when deciding because they can be very different. The short-term effect might be exciting or seem like a good idea at the time, but the long-term implications might be very different. It's crucial to weigh all of the pros and cons of a decision before making it, so you can be sure that you're making the right choice.
Do you agree or disagree?
I'd love to hear how you make decisions?