The overthinker's guide to making decisions How to make decisions without losing your mind

Fear features heavily in life. Healthy fear protects us from dangerous situations. The fear-based adrenaline rush experienced when viewing horror movies is part of the appeal of the medium. However, when fear plays an outsized role in decision-making, the consequences can be a life of dreams unfulfilled. Happiness and fulfillment, then, are the outcomes of confident decision-making based on self-trust. Nguyen's workbook facilitates this challenging shift in practice through the guidance, reflective prompts, and fill-in worksheets provided here. Nguyen advises applying the SAGE strategy to achieve serenity (S) and harness emotion (E), pairing it with a TRUST framework built on actions to calm the mind (T: deep breaths) and focus on the root decision (R, concisely stated in one sentence). These structures are supported with prompts for personal reflection and "tiny steps" to take toward building an internalized process for the confident decision-making that best serves the aspirations of the reader. Recommended for public- and academic-library collections. The book includes a QR-code link to printable versions of decision-making tools (not seen); readers must provide an email address to access.