Every moment, thoughts are racing through the mind. You may wonder how to know what are the best decisions for you regarding your personal, professional or other areas of your life. The buck stops here. That is, its the perfect moment to take responsibility for how you perceive life to be unfolding, rather than blame someone else for what does not feel right inside or what does not appear to be going well. Consider ten ways to make the best decisions in any situation:
1) Pay closer attention. Everything in life is connected. Every synchronicity guides you to another when you are open and receptive. Be alert. Every encounter and situation is an opportunity. Rather than ask why me, why now? Know the 'what' guides you to why & how.
2) Listen to the heart. Call it intuition, call it what you will. If the urge arises to turn right, to go to a place you have never visited, let it happen. There is more going on than meets the eye. Know you do not have to get your head around everything. Best things cannot be explained.
3) Use Integrity. Being honest is often conditioned out of people. Notice where you fear telling the truth, fear losing pride or not getting someone's approval. Decisions based on fear never feel right. Decisions based on enthusiasm or heartfelt joy use love as a reliable compass.
4) Know your audience. Recognize you can find a sympathetic or supportive audience for any choice that feels right to you. People who would not do what you do only distract you from your inner compass. Nobody actually knows you better than you know yourself.
5) Identify core value. Notice the value of any given decision or result is purely personal. You establish your needs and imagine what could satisfy them. Only you can determine how important some situation, state of mind or being is for you. You are the measurer and the ruler.
6) Be aware of underlying motivation. Every decision you make has a trigger. Some are more obvious than others. You may think you are ready for a life change or notice you are in a position to help others. When motivated by love, you are always making the best choice.
7) Know the power of surrender. You can create goals, design a path to realize them and still wonder what is going wrong. To know the power of surrender is to feel that every experience is helping you to grow more conscious of what you overlook about your life.
8) Accept many roads exist. Whatever you would like to experience in life, there is more than one way to do it. The mind limits your view of what is possible. The heart always sees a way. From the moment you let go of complete control, options present you had not imagined.
9) Who's decision is it? This may seem funny, but its common for people to make decisions for themselves based on what 'somebody else' or 'everyone' thinks is best. Discover who in your life is influencing you. Why allow this? Know you have the courage to listen more to yourself.
10) Lose the inner judge. An amazing thing happens as you cease to judge your prospective options. All of them appear equal. That is, whether you attend this school or that school, take this job or that job, engage in this activity or that activity, commit more seriously to this relationship or break it off, take this course of treatment or not, lessons are available for you to learn about yourself and feel happy, peaceful and fulfilled. Get to know how you think and feel. The revelation that you can do it anywhere, under any conditions itself, transforms your life.