March 20, 2007 | Posted in: Leading Hartfully

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When you’re in the midst of making career choices or other decisions about your job, your lifestyle, your surroundings or other business decision; of course you can write out the pros and cons and do a comparative analysis. I’m all for the using a visual to help sort out thoughts and see them in writing. It may make your clear choice jump out at you.

Trying what I like to call The Tingle Test is what really cuts to the chase and gets down to how you feel about a decision. Saying your decision out loud or just holding that vision clearly in your mind should give you a gut check and either make you tingle with excitement or leave you lack-luster. It’s truly getting quiet and listening to your body and how it reacts to a decision as if you already made that decision. After you visualize your decision or say it, how do you feel? Does your hair stand up, do you get tingles down your spine, does a smile appear on your face, do your eyes light up, do you stand taller? All these are signs that your gut says yes to that decision.

If your body doesn’t react positively, then maybe you need to tweak your decision – figure out what isn’t exactly feeling right about it an make some adjustments in order to pass The Tingle Test with flying colors. Stress is what happens when your mouth says ‘OK’ and your gut says ‘No Way’ – that’s when you know you need to regroup and feel energized with a better decision.

Make your decisions dynamic and involve all aspects of yourself to know if you’re OK with that decision. Take The Tingle Test on your next decision and see what happens.

Now I’ve got goose bumps just thinking about my future and opportunities coming into my world…..how about you?

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