The document outlines different decision making styles, including agonizing, avoidance, compliance, desire, destiny, inspiration, intention, procrastination, security, spontaneity, and synthesis. It notes that only some of these styles are positive and asks the reader to reflect on which styles they use.

1. Decision Making
Styles
ONLY SOME OF THESE ARE POSITIVE…
WHICH ONES DO YOU USE?

2. Decision Making Styles
 agonizing
 Accumulating so much information that analyzing the
options becomes overwhelming.
 avoidance
 Choosing the option that is most likely to avoid the
worst possible result.

3. Decision Making Styles
 compliance
 Going along with family, school, work, or peer
expectations.
 desire
 Choosing the option that might achieve the best result,
regardless of the risk involved.

4. Decision Making Styles
 destiny
 Letting outside forces decide; leaving the decision up to fate.
 inspiration
 Doing something because “it feels right” or because “it just
seems like the right thing to do.”

5. Decision Making Styles
 intention
 Choosing an option that will be both intellectually and
emotionally satisfying.
 procrastination
 Postponing thought and action until options are limited.

6. Decision Making Styles
 security
 Choosing the option that will bring at least some
success, offending the fewest people, but also posing
the least risk.
 spontaneity
 Choosing the first option that comes to mind; giving
little or no consideration to the consequences of the
choice.

7. Decision Making Styles
 synthesis
 Choosing the option that has a good chance to succeed,
and the one which you like the best (thus helping you stay
motivated to follow through).

8. Decision Making Styles
 Agonizing
 Avoidance
 Compliance
 Desire
 Destiny
 Inspiration
 Intention
 Procrastination
Only Some of These Are Positive… Which Ones Do You Use?
 Security
 Spontaneity
 Synthesis