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Taking the Pressure Off of Decision-Making

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10.04.2026

Readers receive an understanding about how they make their decisions stressful.

The information was gathered from the clinical work with hundreds of clients.

Reader gain the perspective that the outcome of a decision is not as important as how we treat ouirselves.

Readers are encouraged to accept that any decision involves unconscious bias and insufficient information.

Most of us don’t learn how to make decisions without the accompanying stress and pressure, and we likely didn't have models of that. The stress and pressure reflect our investment in our decision, being only about what we intend, which would call for divine intervention. Our decision-making is always guided by unconscious biases and insufficient information. We can be haunted by the voice of early authority figures insisting upon the rightness of our decisions. When that happens, the ego can fall into a compensatory pattern, insisting on a guarantee of making the right decision.

Bringing Ease to Our Decisions

We won’t always be able to make decisions stress-free. We can make our decisions........

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