“The opportunity is often lost by deliberating.”
– Publilius Syrus, Roman writer
Image from Flickr by Julia Manzerova.
About a month ago, I attended a coaching workshop related to decision making. The speaker pointed to the combined use of our head, heart, and gut in this process.
Examine your own use of phrases such as I think, I feel, or my gut tells me, as a way to determine which of these three voices is the loudest.
A phrase I often hear, and frequently tell myself, is “I need to think this over” – which almost always slows down the decision-making process. It can sometimes help us avoid mistakes, but as the quote above suggests, it may often have us miss out on some of life’s best stuff.
Exercise:
How can you enhance the use of your heart and gut to augment your thinking self, so as not to lose out on some of life’s most wonderful opportunities?
