Before you make any major decisions we highly recommend…

Page 251. Before you make any major decisions we highly recommend that you use this acronym to guide you- Think-. Time for reflection is essential. Reflective thinking allows you to pause so you can consider all of your options. Will this help me accomplish any major goals more effectively? Why do I want to do this? What specific game will I take from this course of action? What is the downside if it doesn’t work? How much time will this really take? Number to ask find out everything you need to know to make an intelligent informed decision. Number three decide use your double spiral technique to increase your decisiveness visualize the negative and positive consequences. Make a firm decision. The decision is half your battle. Chronic procrastinators Lead lives of discontent because they won’t make the decision to go forward. After a while sitting on the fence become most uncomfortable. Act. Now that you have done some reflective thinking- Asked around for more information and finally made your decision, it’s time to act.

— from Decisions & Choices (Decision/Choice/Focus/Forethought/Consequences) · Power of Focus by Jack Canfield, and others

In the book

Now the toolkit for the decisions that earn the slow path. A simple sequence helps: before any major choice, think — take time to reflect, ask (find out everything you need to know), decide (commit), and then act. Before you even get there, learn to be still: delay your reaction, stay skeptical, and hold several possible explanations in your mind at the same time rather than grabbing the first. […] With that weight acknowledged, here are the ways we fail. The first is paralysis. Chronic procrastinators live in quiet discontent because they will not make the call, and sitting on the fence eventually becomes more painful than any decision would have been. Often the engine of that paralysis is fear: a risk frightens us so much that we refuse to think about it or its consequences at all — which is the worst possible response. — Decisions & Choices (Decision/Choice/Focus/Forethought/Consequences)

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