Personal Reflection Essay

Thus, I went looking, found a good place and that was it. The decision-making process probably had more subtlety than I am giving credit for. Ultimately, I realized that it was quite important for me to just make a decision. That was probably the hardest part, and took a couple of months, just getting to the point where I was ready to make a decision at all -- deciding to decide was the biggest choice in this situation.

Formulating options was pretty easy, because I saw this entire situation as an either/or, though there was the part of about finding an apartment. With that, however, I mostly used by gut emotional instincts. I could have approached that problem from a rational perspective, but I realized that I didn't really want to -- I just wanted a solution and was going to take the first reasonable solution that presented itself. This is pretty far from rational decision-making, but it is exactly...

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The key for me is that when I decide something has to happen, there isn't much that's going to cause me stress. When the heart is ready to make something happen, there isn't much conflict at that point. Prior to that, it was probably just a process of getting to that point where the decision was going to happen. That would have started with some vague sense of dissatisfaction. When that became a little clearer and I started to realize the source of the dissatisfaction, well at that point it needed to happen. For me, I am more likely to stress about what to have for dinner than with some of the bigger decisions in my life, because with those the decision is almost all emotional, and with other decisions I actually stop to think about it.

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