by Meredith Walters | Feb 16, 2016 | Blog, Career Change, How to Make Decisions
I talk to a lot of people who struggle to decide what to do next in their careers because they think they have too many interests. It’s fine, they say, if you’re passionate about one thing; that makes the decision easier. But what if you’re fascinated by a lot of...
by Meredith Walters | Dec 8, 2015 | Blog, Fear, How to Make Decisions
“Resistance obstructs movements only from a lower sphere to a higher. It kicks in when we seek to pursue a calling in the arts, launch an innovative enterprise, or evolve to a higher station morally, ethically, or spiritually. So if you’re in Calcutta working with the...
by Meredith Walters | Sep 30, 2015 | Blog, Career Change, Common Challenges, Fear, How to Make Decisions
I’ve always found decisions stressful, probably because I’m usually trying to find the right answer. That’s how I know that having options can feel just as stressful as not having any if none of them feel right. I meet people all the time who are incredibly...
by Meredith Walters | Sep 16, 2015 | Blog, How to Make Decisions
A reader recently asked a great question in response to a piece I wrote about how to make impossible decisions. That’s all fine and good, she said, but what about permanent, irreversible decisions, like whether to have another child? You can’t just try it out and you...
by Meredith Walters | Jul 16, 2014 | Blog, How to Make Decisions
Some decisions seem impossible to make. No matter how much we think about them or talk about them or obsess over them, we don’t get any closer to a satisfying answer. Why are these decisions so difficult? In her TED talk on making hard choices, philosopher Ruth Chang...
