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good job we do have the unconscious mind to make decisions for us. If we didn’t, we’d have to make hundreds more conscious little decisions every day.
     
    Driving to work, you’d have to consciously decide every turning to make, rather than letting your unconscious decide for you. When eating your dinner, you’d have to consciously decide which piece of pie to cut up and eat first rather than just eat your dinner.
     
    How can you move from unconscious decision making to conscious decision making?
     
    Here are a few tips:
     
    One – Pre-decide and commit
     
    Let’s say you’re going to a restaurant, and you know that once you’re in the restaurant and you’re smelling the food, and enjoying the atmosphere, you will crumble and order the big tasty steak, with cheesy fries, and the cheesecake for dessert. To avoid this, phone the restaurant before you leave and pre order. If you can’t do this, decide what you’re going to have before you leave, write it down and take it with you. DON’T deviate from it.
     
    If you’re going shopping and you know you have a tendency to stack your trolley with stuff you don’t need, then write a shopping list out and again DON’T deviate. Follow it.
     
    If you’re giving something up and you know you’re going to be in an environment where you’ll struggle with your self-discipline, then picture in your mind before you leave, how you will attack the unconscious urge in the moment.
     
    Two – Take immediate action
     
    If you’re looking to buy a new car (because your unconscious mind can just imagine you behind the wheel, driving around town) but you know you don’t actually NEED a new car, you just feel like you want a change, then your conscious mind could be saying to you “Don’t get this car. You will have to buy it on credit, and it will cost you a lot of money”. Your unconscious mind still wants it however, so you may be fluctuating between buy it, don’t buy it, buy it, and don’t buy it.
     
    If this is happening then you need to take action during the “Don’t buy it” phase. If you’ve been test-driving cars, phone the dealer straight away and tell them you’ve changed your mind and will not be purchasing the car.
     
    Once you’ve done this, you’ll breathe a sigh of relief, as you’ll know you’ve made the right decision and just saved yourself a fortune.
     
    Three – Weigh up the pro’s and con’s
     
    If you’re having a job deciding on something and you don’t just want to leave yourself open to your unconscious mind choosing for you, then take a blank sheet of paper and draw a vertical line down the centre of the page. One the left hand side, make a list of the pro’s, and on the right hand side, make a list of the con’s. When you’ve done this, your decision may be obvious. If not, you can score each of the pro’s and con’s out of ten. Score the pro’s for how positive they are, and the con’s how negative they are.
     
    You will then have a pro/con score which will help your decision.
     
    Four – Pause your thinking
     
    If you just stop thinking for a moment by focussing on your breathing, you will find that your unconscious mind shuts up. This is a good opportunity for you to take stock and make a decision from a place of calmness, rather than a place of excitement or apprehension.
     
    Does it feel right?
     
    When you’ve made your decision, you should ask yourself the above question. Does it feel right? If it doesn’t, then there may be flaw in your decision. If you know that logically it is right, then it could just be your emotions taking over, but I always listen to my gut when making important decisions. Your intuition is often a good judge.
     
    Indecisiveness can cause you to waste a lot of time. It can cause you to toss and turn at night. It can cause you stress and it can send your head in a spin. Making a decision causes you to move forward.
     

Chapter 10
     
    Knowledge & Choices
     
    One of the