When values are clear, decisions are easy - Roy Disney

I received this quote as a hand-me-down from a previous employer and it's since become one of my all-time favorite, go-to quotes in times of need - especially when I am at the crossroads of making a decision.

As someone with a Gemini Moon, decision making has felt quite challenging for me throughout my life - so many choices, so many options! They all sound so great!

I have a tendency to exhaust every possible outcome and overthink my options until finally time runs out and there I am, eeny-meeny-miney-mo'ing the decision, yet still feeling uneasy about which one I ended up with. Can you relate?

So now, whenever I have a decision to make, I often refer back to that Roy Disney quote and find that the decision making process a wee-bit easier. I gain more clarity as to which direction to take, and when I make decisions in consideration of my values, I'm often delighted with the results and outcome.

I attribute successful decisions to be in alignment with what resonates in my heart and what I know (but sometimes ignore) to be true. So that old adage, "follow your heart" really does make a lot of sense. Even if my mind doesn't think so.

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