Author: jeremyn
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High-Stakes Decisions: Navigating Life’s Major Choices
High-stakes decisions are those significant, life-altering choices that carry a lot of weight, such as changing careers, relocating, or starting a family. These decisions can feel overwhelming due to the pressure of choosing the “right” path and the long-term consequences that come with it. The fear of making a mistake or missing out on better… Read more
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Decision Fatigue: The Toll of Constant Decision-Making
Decision fatigue occurs when the mental energy required to make numerous decisions throughout the day leaves a person feeling drained and exhausted. The brain’s neurons require a high level of oxygen and blood glucose to function, and when they are busy, they can become fatigued just like muscles. As a result, the quality of decisions… Read more
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Supporting the Dopaminergic System for Optimal Decision Making
Improving dopamine production can positively impact mood, motivation, cognitive function, and overall well-being. Here are several strategies, including exercise, diet, and lifestyle recommendations, to enhance dopamine production: Exercise Diet Lifestyle Recommendations Supplements Mindfulness and Cognitive Activities Avoiding Dopamine Depleters By incorporating these strategies into your lifestyle, you can support and enhance your brain’s dopamine production,… Read more
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Build Your Decision Space
Studies of professional decision-makers, whether they are executives, engineers, or healthcare professionals, share a similar approach to making decisions. They work in a way that optimizes the brain’s capacity to complete a deliberate decision-making process. Specifically, they work in a step-by-step approach, with each step supporting the next to develop specific outputs that become the inputs for the… Read more
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Optimizing Decision Making Performance
Optimizing the brain for making decisions involves understanding and enhancing various factors that affect cognitive performance and mental clarity. It is the brain after all that is the source of the behavior of decision making. When it has the proper rest, time of day, nutrition, stress management, and exercise it needs, it is more likely… Read more
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High Performance Decision Maker
Mastery of decision making is key to a involvement in life. “Enjoying the challenge and grateful for opportunities” is a common refrain of top decision makers. You may find you have arrived at this place in life. Well organized, with daily decisions integrated together to support each other the synergy supports time and energy to… Read more
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Specific Performance
Decision making is a natural behavior as well as an acquired skill. You can develop your decision making abilities through training, experience, and life long learning. Even after doing all the work your may still feel that there you are “Just missing those last pieces”. At this point you can manage daily decisions, and have… Read more
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Daily Decider/Complex Struggling
Have you recently thought, “I’m stuck in a rut, and just cant seem to breakout”. Overall things are going well day to day, having established a routine that is enjoyable. However, you still have a wanting to grow, wanting to build on this foundation and wanting to make what matters to you. Especially as it… Read more
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Daily Challenged Learning Pathway
If you have ever caught yourself saying that there is “Too much going on, I feel overwhelmed”, then you are not in the best position to make decisions. There is a good chance that you are struggling with basic daily decisions, which may include the following: It is likely that the following is also true… Read more
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Weekly Needs Assessment
Clarify Your Important Decisions The Weekly Needs Assessment is designed to help decision-makers identify and prioritize crucial decisions. By focusing on unmet needs, this tool enhances decision-making efficiency and effectiveness. Deliberate decision making requires significant amounts of energy and time to complete a deliberate decision. The brain monitors this process and will most likely complete… Read more