Tag Archive for: decision making

Don’t Make Big Decisions When You’re Hungry, Angry, Lonely or Tired

By: Sabrina Peters

Ever experienced those moments when you’re absolutely famished, seething with anger, engulfed by loneliness, or utterly exhausted? Read more

Paralysis by Analysis

By: Robert Martin

Years ago when I worked as a marketing analyst, my boss warned me against “paralysis by analysis” – cautioning against spending so much time analysing that we never took any action. Read more

Decision Making: How to Get Results Without ‘Resulting’

By: Yiqin Houston

In my work as a project manager, I am often tasked with making decisions with limited information and plenty of uncertainty. Read more

You Trust Your Intuition More Than You Think. Here’s Why…

By: Michael McQueen

Sometimes you just ‘know’. In the absence of evidence, logic and often common sense, all of us experience a deeply felt certainty that seems to defy all of our standard principles of decision-making. Read more

When ‘Reloading’ Isn’t an Option: Dealing with Real Life and Decision Paralysis

By: City Bible Forum

It’s really dark, but I’ve done this a hundred times before. I need to know where they are, without them ever finding out I’m here too, skulking in the shadows of an eerily empty street.   Read more

For When Life Isn’t Black and White

By: Jennie Scott

Do you ever wish life could be reduced and simplified, just like our teachers taught us to do with fractions? Take the numbers you see and reduce them until they can’t be reduced any more — 50/100 becomes 1/2, the large and complex becoming small and simple. Read more

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To the Parent Without the Right Answers

By: Jennie Scott

Tears streamed down my child’s face, the frustration apparent.

The frustration was clear, but the real issue wasn’t. I couldn’t get to the root of the matter. Was it exhaustion? A misunderstanding? Did something happen at school? What was really going on?

I never figured it out. My questioning and probing did no good with the child sprawled across my bed, so I couldn’t make sense of it.

Which basically summarises being a parent. Read more