Emotions In The Driver's Seat: Lessons Learned From Impulse Choices

Is it weird that one of my wrong decisions made from emotions is to avoid important decisions? I felt too scared and anxious to engage in a decision and because of this, I procrastinate or just keep avoiding important decisions that may most likely affect my life for my own betterment.

Deciding to avoid making such decision came from the ones I've made that most of them that could turn out bad for me and I just keep regretting till I got to the point of not making any to avoid getting more hurt but that didn't last long as I made another emotional mistake once again.

I believe it's in humans to make mistakes and that include the decisions we make out of anger or happiness that could turn out good or bad, it also include not making a decision out of emotions that holds us back from becoming our own better versions. I'll share my own two sides.

It's common to make decisions based on emotions and I'm not excluded. To make a decision while angry and to make one while happy, kinda seem same for me but from my experiences, the happy mood decisions have given me way better results and so I'll share one.

I had always admired people who are learning a particular skill but I never had the zeal to go for it until a long time friend contacted me and, out of the excitment that I got my friend back, I agreed immediately to learn what he had been learning for years that kept him away from contacting me.

After a while of learning, I felt like I was too in a haste to make such a decision but over time and presently, I'm reaping positively from that decision. Talk of a slow burn decision that I keep feeling grateful every day that comes as I keep growing and mastering the new skill I opted for.

I may have to agree with myself that the times I've held back from making important deciosns due to my emotions are more than the times I didn't. There is this fear that comes with making decisions, it's worse when it is after an incident that the thought kinda taunts one's reality over.

After a break from my mum when she left, I've been feeling this insecurity with trusting another, thinking they'd leave if I decide to go to close to them. I knew they were not the same scenarios but I just find myself being extra careful about making that bond decisions after it happened.

Because of that experience, I've let my emotions after some decisions I should have made back then, of course, I don't know if they would have been for my good or not but I do regret letting my emotions take the lead those times. Today, I'm doing better and I try to put my emotions in check. I'll advice same for everyone else. It isn't an easy feat but it is doable and very advisable.