The Role Of Emotions In Decision-Making

Hello everyone.

I'm so happy to write again in this community after a while. it's so important to express our feelings sometimes and it is one of the reasons why this community is a place for me to write my thoughts and how I feel at a particular time.

In this article, I want to talk about how our feelings affect our journey in life or how our feelings please a very important role in our life choices and our decisions. You might have seen a quote that says when you are angry don't make a decision when you are happy don't make a promise, and when you are sad don't come to a conclusion. One of the reasons for this saying is that our feelings play a vital role in our journey.

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Once we make mistakes to interpret our feelings in a wrong way or use our feelings to make critical decisions we can end up regretting those decisions years later.

Decision-Making

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step" which is a quote we all are familiar with. at some point in time, that quote was modified later saying "a journey of a thousand miles not only begins with one step but one step in the right direction". Now, what does this mean this means that we could actually put on all the success gadgets in life and put procrastination backwards and decide to start or make a move on our life's journey but at the end of the day we make a step in the wrong direction and one of the reasons which I would like to talk about today that makes us get that step wrong is because of our feelings & Emotions.

Feelings play a role in making life decisions. I'm going to share one
which I got wrong, A situation which I later came to realise that it was because of my feelings?

I STOPPED LEARNING THE PIANO

This was something that happened about 7 years ago!
I used to be very good at playing the flute and understood tonic sofas and music in general.

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my music teacher decided to start teaching me all the instruments he could lay his hands on. we began with the saxophone but he discovered that teaching me the piano was easier and I enjoyed learning it.
I was learning for about a month when the school authorities decided he couldn't teach me outside the school duration and advised that he could be my music teacher outside the school.
Excited that this was lovely information, I rushed to inform my parents of the opportunity to continue learning the piano with my music teacher. Instead, they offered me an option to learn from a music school close to the house rather than go a distance to meet my music teacher every day. An offer that I didn't like because I was so used to my music teacher so I declined and at the end of the day, I ended up not going to the music school or learning with my music teacher and I've never really had the time today to focus on playing the piano well.

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I acted on my emotions by rejecting the Music School offer which would still use yield the same output and I chose to do nothing because I was angry about leaving my music teacher... To date, I would take it back if I was given the opportunity.

In conclusion...

Feelings and emotions play a huge role in The decisions we make and it is important to understand them.
This day we need to review every critical decision we make when we feel differently. for example, if you make a decision when you are sad be sure to review the decision when you are happy, or if you make a decision when you are angry be sure to review it when you feel less calm.

A lot of people will say that you shouldn't make a decision when you're angry. However, I think it is impossible not to because we are all creatures of habit. we would always react to situations in life so, in my opinion, we could review decisions as a discipline

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