Make decisions: 6 tips to make it happen

1: Learning from algorithms

Do it like Facebook & Co. and get your own patterns on the track. First analyze: What were the motives for making the best decisions you have made in your life? Do you need challenge and adventure, freedom, security - and what happens again and again? Identify your main drivers and match them to the current question.

2: Pro & Cons reloaded

Lists for decision-making are not bad, but old hat. Better do it: weight your arguments on both sides, from beside (one plus / one minus) to central (three plus / three minus). The decisive factor is not the number of arguments, but the sum of the points!

3: role play

Put in different roles and let them hold a monologue: What does the realist, the optimist, the pessimist, the spinner say? Your child, your boss, your neighbor, your mother? It is best to set each time on a new place (makes the change of perspective more credible).

4: What would grandma do?

Who would you most like to ask for advice now - and why? Often there is an indication of the answer: Finally, we suspect that our grandmother would give us a different tip than the sister, the intellectual writer another than the down-to-earth neighbor.

5: take sides

Check out any team game in the Sports Channel. Likewise in a discipline that you do not understand, the sport does not matter. In doing so, you assign your options (for example, whether you are a coworker or withstand the job) to the respective teams. Take note of which team your heart begins to cheer on. You will notice how intuitively a direction will crystallize.

6: Find pictures in nature

This method is called "medical walk": Take a walk in the forest, on the water or in the park and look for a picture that is suitable for the symbol of your current situation. For example, an abandoned bird's nest or an overcast stone. Let the picture affect you: What is it bothering you? How could it be changed? How does that translate to your life?