Ways to Make Decisions

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Ways to Make Decisions

• Comparison of 8 Strategies

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Impulsive

• Dont look before you leap.
• Little thought or examination.
• Taking the first alternative.

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Intuitive

• It feels right.
• Automatic, preconscious choice based on inner
  harmony.

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Compliant

• Anything you say, sir
• Non-assertive let someone else decide.
• Follow someone elses plans.

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Delaying

• Cross that bridge later.
• Procrastination, avoidance, hoping someone or
  something will happen so that you wont have to
  make a decision.
• Taking a moratorium.
• Postponing thought and action.

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Fatalistic

• Its all in the cards.
• What will be will be.
• Letting the environment decide.
• Leaving it up to fate.

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Agonizing

• What if? I dont know what to do.
• Worrying that a decision will be the wrong one.
• Getting lost in all the data.
• Overwhelmed by analyzing alternatives.

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Paralytic

• Cant face up to it.
• One step further than what if - complete
  indecision and fear.
• Accepting responsibility but being unable to
  approach it.

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Planning

• Weighing the facts.
• Consideration of values, objectives, necessary
  information, alternatives, and consequences.
• A rational approach with a balance between
  thinking and feeling.