The quality of your life is decided by the quality of the decisions you make.
And every day is filled with decision after decision.
We are overwhelmed with decisions.
Your day starts with decisions like what to wear.
Which route to take to work
What mindset you are going to have,
At work, you decide what is your most important task for work to do that day.
How you are going to react in conflict
It doesn’t stop
What are you going to have for dinner ?
How you are going to spend your evening
And what time are you going to bed …
A pre-decision is making your decision before the decision is needed.
That gets you into the driver seat in a difficult or tempting situation.
You are clear in your mind.
If you attend BrightStar workshops or programmes you will already have made quite a number of pre-decisions.
For example : Your values you have chosen pre-decides for you in certain situations.
What can pre-decision making apply to?
Each of us has different goals we are working on and these goals require in-the-moment decisions to keep. Here are some examples you might think about for your pre-decisions.
- Deciding to get more steps in daily, you park farther away in the parking lot.
- Pre decide your budget.
- Making it easier to get out the door on time in the morning, you choose what you are going to wear, get lunch boxes ready and even do some prep for your cooking tomorrow.
- Decide to be generous – when the bill at the end of the meal come your decision is made. You just need to act on it
- Maybe you’ve been dominating discussions at work, and you want to talk less and listen more. You may decide that whenever you’re considering whether to say something in a meeting, you’ll stay silent for a full minute before speaking up — at which point you’ll be able to gauge whether your comment will add value to the discussion.
You already determined the quality of your life by pre-deciding
What is there in your life that you need to make a decision about every day. Keep it simple. Don’t complicate it.
What pre-decisions will do is save you time, energy, money, and most especially stress. If you find yourself making the same small or large decisions over and over, it is time for pre-decision-making.
So, you basically want to determine what you are going to decide before you have to decide.
In the moment we sometimes get bombarded by different emotions and temptations.
If I have made my decision, I only have to stick with it.
I don’t need to make the decision.
Sometimes you won’t stay with your decision because you choose not to. Give yourself grace.
Sometimes it’s necessary to break one of your personal rules. But then you are already aware of what decisions you have made.
What decisions are there that you have to make over and over. Those are good to pre-decide
What decisions are there that you can pre-decide – maybe on buying birthday presents? The way you want to rest. How to treat friends?
The quality of your life is decided by the quality of the decisions you make.
Improve the quality of your decisions by pre-deciding and say Yes to more Joy!
What in your life can you pre-decide that will be helpful? OR what have you pre-decided that was helpful (Lets help each other!
Rayline Coetzee
Co-CEO BrightStar Lifestyle
