When decision making includes heart and mind success increases, relationships deepen, and happiness grows.
Exercise one: Review your life and test the episode’s idea
- Does good decision-making increase happiness? How?
Exercise two: Reviewing your decision making
- Think about these four kinds of decisions in your life. Which are you best at? Which need work?
- Intellectual / practical decisions.
- Decisions involving heart and mind
- First impressions
- Decisions based on love and compassion
Quotations
Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
— Dalai Lama
In difficult circumstances always act on first impressions.
— Leo Tolstoy
Nothing happens until you decide. Make a decision and watch your life move forward.
— Oprah Winfrey