In Part 1 of Can’t Decide? Try This… we talked about the competing voices in your head. The information you can gather from each of the parts inside you can be both enlightening and informative. It’s hard to sort through valid concerns when they’re all attempting to drown each other out. But if you offer up some spotlight time, you might be pleasantly surprised at what you learn.

Let’s finish up with steps 5 to 7.

5.    Get Specific

You’ve chosen a part to dialogue with. Now ask that part 4 specific questions. Yes, you’re asking yourself – but you may notice that the part of you who’s Frustrated, for example, has its own opinions, energy, and body movement. If you let just that part of you walk around the room you’d notice it’s a full personality. Strange but true.

Now go ahead and either in writing or speaking out loud (better than in your head), ask Frustration (or whoever you chose) the following questions – and pause to hear the answers:

1. What do you believe is the best thing to happen here?

2. What is your biggest concern?

3. What do you most want for me?

4. What would having that do for me?

6.    Write it Down

When you feel complete, write down what you heard, noticed, and learned. Then go through this same process with the other parts you identified in Step 2.

7.  Final Gut Check

What’s the decision, course of action or realization that you ended up with? Write it down. Now re-read your intuitive response from earlier and compare. You may find it is now easier to act on that initial intuitive call. You may also discover that what you thought was your intuition, actually wasn’t!

Getting to know yourSelves better can be challenging but also VERY rewarding. An exercise like this has the potential to put you back in the driver’s seat with your decisions in many situations – armed with some solid information to help you move forward in every aspect of your life.