How To Make Better Decisions In A Covid-19 Affected World

Are you finding that decisions that were once easy to make have become complicated since the Covid-19 pandemic swept the world?

Are you torn between your desire to socialise and your desire to minimise exposure to the virus?

Are you vacillating between investing money in the stock market and keeping it in your back account?

Are you weighing up if you should renew your membership to your favourite sporting club, even though it has put its activities on hold?

If you answered yes to any of these examples or can think of other decisions you are struggling to make in our Covid-19 affected world, then you have a conflict in your values.

In the first scenario, your value of Relationships is conflicting with your value of Health. The second situation indicates a clash between your value of Wealth Creation and your value of Security. Your value of Entertainment is competing with your value of Frugality in the third instance.

If you have an awareness of your values and their order of importance in your life, choosing between one thing and another becomes easier. You can make a decision with a better understanding of what drives you, what you enjoy, what inspires you and what you would like more of.

You create a life that is more satisfying and meaningful when you consciously focus your time and attention on what you value.

Unfortunately, many people don’t take the time to get a clear awareness of their values and as a consequence their decision making is compromised.

The good news is that I’m going to help you to identify and prioritise your values in three simple steps.

Step One: Review the following list of Common Values and highlight all of the ones that are important to you. Consider which values describe how you behave, or are valued parts of your life. The Common Values list is only a guide. If any words are missing from this list and they better describe what you value, use those words. Your values can be situational, so if you find that what you value at work is different to what you value at home, you might consider highlighting the respective values in different colours and doing steps two and three separately for work and home.

Step Two: Narrow down the values you highlighted in Step One to the five that you consider most important in your life. Add your definition of each of the values to further clarify your understanding of them.

Step Three: Brainstorm the possible decisions you are going to make and actions are you going to take in light of your Top Five Values.

This activity is one you can regularly revisit throughout your life because your values can change over time and deepen as you better understand yourself.

At the moment though, I’d like you to post a comment here or on our Facebook page that includes your Top Five Values, as well as the decisions and actions they might be informing.

Any likes and shares are also appreciated as they help to spread this post to a wider audience.

Now go and have a great life.