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Making a decision for a relocation, the author made a list of reasons why to stay, reasons to relocate. Seeing what she wrote, helped her make a decision.
Do you sometimes write out your thoughts about decisions; journal; write out your feelings about people, places ?
I have kept journals where - among other things - I write down my thoughts about any decisions I might need to make, new people in my life, my travels and other experiences. I don't censor myself. What I write down is sheer stream of consciousness.
My journaling has become essential for me because when I go back and read whatever my initial response was to a person or a situation, I was almost always right on. It's like I know what's in my own heart, but if I overthink things and agonize over pros and cons, I forget what I already know to be true.
Writing things down is very helpful - to me anyway.
I have kept journals since I was 10 years old. I still have them. I also still journal every night. And I have book and travel journals also. I love reading back over them.
I make lists all the time. Today I had to go to the DR at 1: So walk 10.50,brief nap Feed dogs 11.50, Dress 12.10 Leave 12.30.
And I want to go to church tonight so when home from the DR. computer 2:45 shave 4.05 dress 415, Leave 5.05
I used to make lists (writing them down) of things to do which could be longterm or shortterm.
Somehow I got away from that, and have sometimes tried to do a list on my phone.
I find that nothing works as well as having the physical list (as in on paper).
I am starting to do it more and more.
I have never really journaled, and I have never been able to process decisions that way either - you know, listing the pro and con for something.
I do find it extremely helpful to keep track of what needs to be done or what I want done.
Making a decision for a relocation, the author made a list of reasons why to stay, reasons to relocate. Seeing what she wrote, helped her make a decision.
Do you sometimes write out your thoughts about decisions; journal; write out your feelings about people, places ?
We did this with our last move. Made a list of pros and cons. Seeing it on paper helped us make our decision.
Making a decision for a relocation, the author made a list of reasons why to stay, reasons to relocate. Seeing what she wrote, helped her make a decision.
Do you sometimes write out your thoughts about decisions; journal; write out your feelings about people, places ?
As an engineering manager I was taught an analytical method of decision analysis: Kepner-Tregoe decision analysis.
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Just yesterday I was working on an Excel spreadsheet to rate the places we may move to when we downsize next year. I have columns that include city, median home price, annual rainfall, average summer high and winter low, population, crime rating, and distance from family. I was very surprised to see the high crime in some small cities that we had considered as possibilities. It definitely helped eliminate some. The main advantage is being able to compare them easily, and narrow it down after eliminating the outliers, such as 78.7 property crime (1 is best). oddly, we found that our current city has by far the highest home prices, most rain, warmest summers, and coldest winters, but lowest crime.
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