52 Simple Ways to Manage Your Money – 6. The Split Second That Counts
A Weekly Journal & Workbook to Help You Take Real Control of Your Money
What it is …
The process and already-established criteria by which you make a decision, whether buying, selling, or making changes.
How it helps…
Eliminates indecision and clarifies your chinking.
Reduces struggle and suffering.
One hour to set up. o Ongoing as needed to evaluate.
Keys to action …
Review the major decisions you made in the past. Under what conditions were they made? Haste? Anger? Pressure from others?
Analyze and evaluate criteria for buying/selling patterns.
Recognize common decision-making moods.
Examine any habits, positive or negative, that influence your decisions.
SET IT UP
Consider how you make decisions. Do you put it off or do you tend to make a snap judgment before you have all the data?
STEP ON IT
Look at the reasons The process keeps you behind any pattern in control. you discover.
STEP ON IT +
The process keeps you in control.
Notice…
What you say to yourself the split second before you decide to buy or pass up an item.
Your willingness to follow a predetermined plan.
Your willingness to add this structure to your life.
But what if…
This feels as though it takes all the fun out of life?
If you arc committed to altering decision-making capabilities, simply notice your resistance.
Thought primers…
At the thought of buying according to plan…
If I add this structure to my life…
The good thing about living according to this whim…
If it turns out I can be more responsible…
One of the ways to improve my decision-making…
One of the ways in which my moods influence my decisions…
“Successful people are successful because they form the habit o f doing those things that failures don’t like to do” – Albert G ray