Questions to Ask When Making Important Decisions

When we're faced with important decisions or choices, it is helpful to have a way of checking ourselves, a way of making sure that we are not acting out of fear or ego.  Using Law of Attraction principles, we say if we are aligned, meaning our desires and our beliefs are the same, our decisions will usually be sound.  However our beliefs are sometimes unconscious, meaning that we aren't always aware of them.  And these unwitting beliefs can come like a thief in the night, stealing away our best intentions and causing us to make decisions that are not in alignment with who we really are.

Paying attention to our state of mind and making sure that we are in our heart is a good way to check our alignment.  In LOA we know that the more we are in our heart and feeling good about ourselves and our lives, the more aligned we are. We also should be listening to our intuition and not just looking at the facts.  It's called radical self trust.  Considering the cold hard facts is definitely an important step that should not be skipped.  But then listening to the voice within is essential to gaining insights that the facts don't always reveal.  Our intuition might actually guide us in one direction while the facts are suggesting something entirely different.   

One example in my own life was several years ago when I wanted so much to be in a relationship and so deeply believed that anyone I could truly love would hurt me, I "chose" someone based on the facts on paper of who we were.  Looking at many facts such as common interests, spiritual beliefs, and so on, it seemed we would get along well. But as it turned out, we were not compatible at all.  Relationships are one domain where there is so much besides the facts about the two people:  communication styles, attraction--that wonderful thing called chemistry, the energetic connection, and all the other unknowns that go into making a connection magical.  In this arena, our intuition is our best guide.

Listening to friends and family who care can sometimes be important.  But I say intuition trumps what the friends and family say.  In fact, I joke that one way you know for certain you should follow a course of action is when your intuition strongly suggests it and everyone around you thinks your crazy.  This simply means that trusting our own intuition is more important than trusting the opinion of others.  Following are some questions that you can use to check in with yourself to determine if you are on course when making any important decision or choice: