Choosing is a difficult skill to master and is perhaps the hardest thing we all need to learn. Choosing the best option, the smartest option, the best possible option is difficult.


Mindful decision making allows us to take responsibility for making choices, understand our options better, and have more control over the results of our decisions.

In this guide, I'll teach you how to choose wisely by looking at a set of steps that help you become more aware, aware of yourself and others, and even aware of what's truly important to you.

Let's begin.

STEP 1: Be Aware Of The Situation

What's happening in your life? Is anything changing?

In your current job, are there any changes you need to adapt to? Are your coworkers acting differently than before? Are you being challenged? Is your boss moving from the team you currently work with?

Think about the environment and the situation in which you make decisions.

STEP 2: Understand Yourself

Knowing yourself will help you become more aware of your own biases and behaviors, but it will also give you insight into why you make some decisions and not others.

When you become more aware of your own tendencies, you're more likely to notice patterns.

STEP 3: Know Your Options

Once you know the situation in which you are making a decision, the next step is to look at all your options.

There are things you can do that can be considered decisions, and there are things you can do that are considered acts of choice.

Choose Your Options: You can do everything to achieve something.

Act On Your Options: You can do everything to achieve something.

Both of these can be called a decision, but they are different.

STEP 4: Decide What Matters Most To You

After deciding what you want and understanding your options, you've got to decide what matters most to you.

Now it's time to decide which of the options you chose to act on really matters to you and how important it is to you.

STEP 5: Do It Now

At this point, you should have decided what you want to do, what options are available, and what matters most to you.

From this point on, the goal is to get started now.

STEP 6: Take Action

You now have the ability to act on your chosen options and move forward with confidence and clarity.

STEP 7: Follow Through

This is a major step that will determine whether or not your efforts are successful or not.

As you follow through, make sure to be consistent in your behavior, whether it's positive or negative.

STEP 8: Reflect

Once you've followed through on your decisions, be sure to reflect on them.

You want to consider what went well and what didn't, what worked and what didn't, and what was difficult and why.

Take this opportunity to learn and grow from your experiences.

Steps 1 through 8 are meant to guide you through the process of mindful decision making and