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What’s your preferred decision-making style?  Do you go with spontaneous feelings use a structured method of weighing options?  People tend to think of themselves as intuitive “feely” types or as thinking “logical” types, but you can use a combination of methods to good effect. 

Sometimes when I’m faced with a tough decision, I make a list of the pros and cons.  I look at it every day for a week or so (this works best for decisions that don’t have to be made right away).  One morning when reading the list I discover that I’ve made a decision.  And I don’t necessarily choose the option that got the most pros vs. cons.  It’s the one my gut tells me to choose. 

I think this works because even if I had an initial gut feeling about the issue, I needed to sort out and air my thoughts about the problem.  This way I’m approaching it from both sides and I have more confidence in my final, usually intuitive, decision.