Hello everyone! Continuing on with our series about Making Healthy Decisions! (I will do a wrap up of this when it is all done – so you will have the list of questions all in one place!
Today's question to ask yourself in your decision making process is:
Should I be acting or should I be stepping back?
Okay, so this can be a tough one. Do we wait and "see what happens" or do we jump in take that bull by the horns, wrestle it to the ground, and show it who's boss? :-) Living in this microwave-instant message-tweet-email-Facebook status updating-seeminglyinstant gratification world can be detrimental to our decision-making process. We are beginning to feel that everything needs an instant action! That just isn't true! Some things are best left alone, left to marinate, left to give a chance to breathe and perhaps evolve into something else.
Countless times we've all acted too soon or without sufficient information, or we've stepped in where our input wasn't needed (or wanted – what is up with that – it seems that I can hardly even go to the grocery store without someone commenting on what I should be doing/buying, etc. – so strange… anyway…) and muddied circumstances that were already working themselves out.
When you ask yourself, quietly and confidently, what your part is in a given situation, and where to wait (or exit entirely), you'll get a clear idea of your role. If you ask the question and still want to act against the advice of your internal coach, remind yourself that, although life is a series of little dramas, none of them needs a drama queen (or king).
Of course, as with other decision-making processes, it takes some thought to decide when to act and when to step back and see what happens. Putting these question together with the other questions, however, lets you see that this is just part of a whole process. Putting the process together will make much more sense in the end! 🙂
Love, light, and peace,
Mambo Samantha Corfield, www.spellmaker.com
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