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Advice on: Understanding the Situation and Decision

Your Goal At This Stage

Try to achieve the following:

• an accurate, fair-minded and full description of the situation
• a clear statement of the decision you wish to make
• become aware of what your emotions are telling you about the situation and problem

The main abilities that you will use and develop at this stage are:

• emotional wisdom
• critical thinking

Some of the main difficulties that you will face are:

• not being clear about what decision you are trying to make
• not choosing the best problem to work on
• misunderstanding aspects of the situation or having a limited view of it
• being overly influenced by vivid and emotional material
• not taking emotional material sufficiently into account

Try the following exercises

1. Where Are You Now?

   This is your chance to get an initial sounding of where you are at. It is important to explore both your thinking and your emotions.

   Your Initial Thoughts about the Situation and Decision

   Your Inital Emotions About the Situation and Decision

   
   
2. How Did You Get Here?
   

   It is likely that there are aspects of your past that are reflected in your present problem and give it a certain colour. It is also likely that the kind of problem you believe you are facing is also coloured events that triggered you into thinking you had to make a decision

   The Decision in the Context of Your Personal History
   
   Assess the Trigger To Chose the 'Best Problem'
   
   
   

3. Moving Forward

   It is unlikely that your initial thoughts and feelings will have captured all the important wisdom about the situation so you need to challenge yourself.

   Be an Ace Investigative Journalist and Your Own Sympathetic Critic

   Be an Un-Spin Doctor: Spot and Deal with Loaded Words and Phrases and Vivid Material

   
   
4. Reassess Your Initial Thoughts and Emotions

   If you have been open-minded and careful enough over the previous exercises it is quite possible that you have moved on from where you initially stood. Now is the time to reassess your understanding of the situation and problem that you are facing and your emotions about it.

   Reassess your Thoughts about the Situation and Decision

   Reassess Your Emotions about the Situation and Decision