DECISION-MAKING

SELF-KNOWLEDGE

RESILIENCE

HUMILITY

INTELLECT

ADAPTABILITY

RESOLVE

We live in a complex world. In it we face ongoing challenges. At each step along, a variety of choices are presented.

How an individual handles these choices and challenges will either be confined or arrayed up to three decision making modes, viz.;

1. INSTINCTIVE
(governed by the reptillian brain, i.e. reactive)

2. INSTITUTIONAL
(guided by social and institutional pressures)

3. INTUITIVE
(influenced by mental, emotional and spiritual maturity)

An individual's customary pattern (1, 2 or 3) describes the outer limits of his/her capacity / attainable level of mental strength as well as his/her likely quality of life-outcomes.

WHICH (1, 2 or 3) DOMINATES YOUR DECISION MAKING?
A1: Journal how it guided your decison to enroll in this program.

Consider the following thinking-styles (processes). Evaluate how each may be employed in order to improve your current strategy pursuing desires.

 

1. CRITICAL THINKING

- a disciplined checking of facts, assumptions, sources and biases in order to facilitate reasoned judgments based on evidence (ref SWOT analysis)

 

2. CREATIVE THINKING

- the use of imagination, experience and collaboration to connect learnings and ideas in novel and-or different ways in order to produce fresh, nuanced, innovative solutions (ref STORYBOARDING)

 

3. CONVERGENT THINKING

- connecting the dots: gathering facts and clues then sorting and aligning these, variably, in the search of the 'best' or 'right' solution (ref AFFINITY DIAGRAMS)

 

4. CONCRETE THINKING

- a focus on observable, measurable, experienced set of facts, which are then processed, as is guided by the conviction of what one asserts to be real (ref VISUAL THINKING)

WHICH MOST CLOSELY MATCH YOUR DEFAULT PROCESS?
A2a: USE that TO SOLVE 'PROBLEM 1' LISTED in 'TOPIC 2'
A2b: RESEARCH EACH OF THE referenced CONCEPTS

Review your TOP 5 BELIEFS

 

Ascertain the positive and negative impacts your belief system has on your decision-making process. (Journal these.)

 

Beliefs and decision-making are inescapably enmeshed. On a scale of 1 (being bad) to 10 (being best), evaluate the success of the current alignment between your beliefs and your decision-making process.

A3a: What adjustment(s) should you make?
A3b: How will you make said adjustment(s)?

Review your TOP 5 DESIRES

 

On a scale of 1 (being bad) to 10 (being best) evaluate the impact of your previously practiced decision-making process on achieving your top 5 desires.

 

What positive and negative impacts do you percieve your current (revised) decision-making process will have on achieving the stated desires?

A4: Highlight for ongoing reference.

"LIFE is a sequence of CHOICES. Every choice you make remakes you. (Trust your judgment. TAKE ACTION.)"

Journal YOUR reflections.
A5: HIGHLIGHT YOUR REVISED LISTS.

1. REFLECT on one of your earliest childhood memories.

2. CONSIDER how it impacts your chances and choices.

3. READ the following sections of Riding Moby Dick:

a) Experience #2 - Grease Bag

b) Second Reflection - The Seeker & The Source

A6: Complete EXERCISES assigned in TOPIC 2

NOTE: Memory-makers are life's flashcards reminding us of lessons we were taught and what we need to know. Everything we need to know we learn along our journey.

The world's top percentile of SUCCESSFUL INNOVATORS / CREATORS / CHANGE-MAKERS design and-or adopt EFFECTIVE SYSTEMS rather than just GOALS to produce outstanding achievements.