Decision mapping – the process of noticing and noting the results of your decisions (both known and unknown) and improving the quality of future decisions based on those results.
Does it matter what you do today? What effects will your choices have on you? On your family? Your co-workers? Persons you’ve never met and may never know?
What happens when you make the “wrong” decision? Will the results be catastrophically life-altering, or can you bounce back?
And what about those things you just do out of habit… can those be considered decisions? Or do you do them because that’s “how I am”? Can a person control their impulses? What about when they’re acting out of instinct?
If someone does something horrible to you, do you have a choice? Do you have any choices available after, or are you stuck living with the aftermath? Can you forgive? Should you? Does the answer change if you were a child when it happened?
Over the next few weeks, we will explore choices in more detail. Our discussions will include:
- impulse or instinct
- the pause before the action (and how to insert one)
- the not-good-very-bad things that happen
- habits
- what to do when it all goes wrong
- how to make better choices next time (there’s always a next time)
- more stuff that I’m not thinking of right now
What choices do you struggle with?
Femme Fatale over 50 