Are you finding yourself spending more time weighing your options than actually doing something you need to get done?

Do you need a second opinion on everything, only to disregard what your friends or family have to say?

You might need to work on your decision making. There’s plenty to discuss on the matter!

These days we go through our days exposed to countless distractions, surrounded by digital ads, radio broadcasts, and various social media.

Maintaining a single train of thought from its conception to its expression has become a struggle.

It can affect many different aspects of your life if you don’t take care to keep your brain engaged.

Rather than fight your current habits to set yourself back on track, simply make time for a little brain training in your schedule.

How to Improve Decision:

We are more emotional than rational creatures.

While we like to think of ourselves as rational, logically thinking humans, the truth is most of our decisions are based on emotions.

Regardless of the choice we make, oftentimes it’s with the need to satisfy an immediate need or urge.

Few decisions we make do we give time and consideration to, either because we can’t allow the time for it or are too impatient to wait.

Sometimes we are so concerned with making the right choice, we can’t make a decision at all, which is discussed more in depth at the link below:

https://news.yale.edu/2019/06/25/how-brain-helps-us-make-good-decisions-and-bad-ones

At work and at school, you need to be able to think on the fly, not only to keep up with your goals but to live up to the expectations of your peers.

Taking care of your brain should not be just to get good grades and keep a job.

Training your brain to stay active, engaged, and healthy can contribute to a longer and happier life.

Doing simple things like reading often, playing numbers, and matching games, are things that lure your brain into working while having fun doing it.

So where should you look for help teasing your mind out of a lull?

You have the power to improve.

Resources to get your frontal lobe active and exercising are available at your fingertips.

With some time dedicated to coaching your mind, you can see improvement in your decision making skills, response time, and overall clarity in no time.

Take advantage of professional guidance on how to improve decision-making skills and create a perfect program for yourself.

There’s never a bad time to start improving yourself.

Learn ways to break bad habits like avoiding difficult emotions that deter you from facing some decisions.

Become more certain of yourself by reducing the effect of influential bias on your decision making.

Teach yourself to appreciate the perspective of others so that you can make choices with better information and a wider viewpoint.

Create routines so that holding yourself to your new habits is easier than ever, as long as you use the right tools, and get expert help.

Something else to consider is helping identify any mental illnesses you may have that are undiagnosed.

For some adults, difficulty making decisions comes with the normal stresses of daily life, but for others, it’s part of a bigger problem.

Issues like anxiety and depression, as well as many more illnesses, come with similar effects on decision making.

Creating a level of crisis or importance around the thing that needs a choice made for it, mental illnesses turn normal, everyday tasks into monumental trials with little to no reward.

Teach yourself to be aware of what you’re experiencing, and how you’re responding to it.

Just being conscious of our thoughts and emotions can have a profound effect on helping us make better choices, even if that choice is to not make a decision yet.

While mental illness is best controlled with medicine, taking the reigns on your decision making is something you can do from home.

Beware of external influences and chemistry.

One important part of guiding your brain out of clouded confusion is managing how much stimulus you’re exposed to on a daily basis.

After a certain point, we all learn to tune most things out, but when we’re used to having a tv playing somewhere in the background, or a podcast or music playlist going on our phones, it’s easy to not realize how little we tend to sit, read, or sleep in silence.

Working indoors, studying indoors, cooking, cleaning, and sleeping, how much time do you dedicate to unplugging from devices and sitting in the fresh air and sunshine?

Our bodies operate primarily on chemical reactions and two incredibly important chemicals would arguably be serotonin and melatonin.

Your body needs serotonin to create melatonin, the latter of which promotes restful sleep.

We don’t expect our cars to run without gas, we shouldn’t expect our brains to run without rest.

Being active and getting some sun can help immensely with giving your brain a boost by helping it turn off fully for a good night’s rest.

Your health is in your hands.

More than just resting for energy, our bodies need proper nutrition.

When you’re neglecting your diet, or perhaps lacking in areas you don’t know are insufficient, your body can’t work at its peak performance.

Preventing yourself from getting sick is one thing, but maintaining a healthy diet, balanced with adequate exercise and sleep can be a serious challenge.

Don’t let your well being take the hit because you can’t decide where to make time for yourself.

Commit to giving yourself time for training your brain to make decisions that can improve your life.

Make use of the resources and expert help available to you and find out the best path forward for you.

Invest some energy in building healthy habits so you can be more self aware, make decisions faster and with more clarity, and be more confident in yourself in every choice you make.

You can even share your new skills and habits with your friends and family, and encourage them to do the same.