Help Someone You Love Make Good Decisions Simply and Effectively

Does it seem that every decision you make blows up in your face? It doesn’t have to be that way. You can find personal peace in a simple and effective way right there in the privacy of your home computer, laptop, iPad, or smart phone.

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My desk is so cluttered it seems at least half my time is spent looking for things. If your mind is cluttered the same way, it’s really hard to make good decisions. It’s even harder if your mind is cluttered with all sorts of distracting emotions tugging you this way and that.

Decisions made emotionally run a much higher risk of being the wrong decision.

If you’re stressed, you can make bad decisions.

If you’re on an emotional high, you can also make bad decisions. Have you ever had buyer’s remorse? That new car drove so fine and smelled so good and later you realize the payments are SO high.

We’ll use the term “distracted thinking” to refer to both emotionally-high and emotionally-low thinking. Anything that distracts us from doing the best thing is not good for us.

All kinds of things drive our emotions in the negative. Depression, anger, stress, fear, anxiety, phobias, and so on create situations that call for a decision and also create the situation that probably will cause us to make a hurried and often bad decision.

All emotions are triggered by thoughts. When we let those thoughts take away our ability to do what we need to do properly, it can create an unhealthy situation for you.

The thoughts are typically about something that has happened in the past. It other words, it’s a memory that is bothering us.

Right now, I want you to pause and think about something that leaves you feeling anxious or frustrated. But DON’T dwell on it. Immediately say to yourself, out loud, “I’m not going to think about that.” If it recurs, say it again.

You’ll discover that the frustrating thought will go away. It will go away every time you demand that it go away.  

Dealing with distracting thoughts is so simple that many people have trouble accepting it. The most effective way to control negative thinking is to say to yourself, out loud, "I will not think about that." Do it as often as necessary and do it out loud.

Someone said, “That’s easier said than done.”

Not really. You were made with an innate authority to decide what you want to think about. If a thought causes you to be distracted or emotional, don’t think that thought. It’s your choice. As you make that choice again and again, your subconscious remembers how you like to respond and will start to make your response automatically. It’s amazing how quickly this can happen.

Furthermore, you were made with a subconscious mind that has over time formed the opinion that you like making bad decisions. The process of choosing not to dwell on those thoughts will, over time, convince your subconscious that you do not want to think about that those things anymore. It’s this process that creates the habit of peace and breaks the habit of bad decisions.

At some point, you won't even realize you are thinking distracting thoughts because your subconscious is automatically responding to the thoughts before they become conscious thoughts.

Nothing could be more effective than having your subconscious mind handle your distracted and emotional thinking for you before you even think about it.

Resources you can use

Help someone you love make better decisions. Take 3 minutes to learn more at http://findingpersonalpeace.com/s012.

You can use this idea for just about any negative emotion or habit that bothers you including making bad decisions.

I hope Finding Personal Peace helps you as much in making better decisions as it helped me with my anger problem.

Rod Peeks

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