Some of the worst lifetime decisions I have made have been the ones where I am so emotionally involved that I cannot think straight.

And that’s a great way to put the problem – the inability to think straight.

Most of us have what it takes to make better decisions if we could only separate our hearts from our minds.

This is the advice that helps me.

Think with your head.  Feel with your heart.

There is a place for feeling in every important decision we make but doing what is best for us is often a matter of the head.

• You may be emotionally entangled with someone you love, but do they make a good life partner?  That decision is best made in the mind not the heart.

• You may love your children so much that you can feel how much you want them to succeed and will do everything you can to will it so.  But the mind tells us that making mistakes and learning from them is the real gift and we arrive at that through our mindful consideration.

What’s encouraging is to know that if we differentiate between feeling and thinking, we probably already have the ability to make better decisions for us and those who depend on us.

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