Knowing what your Decision-Making Style is can help you understand why you struggle and can help you identify what will make it easier for YOU to make the right decision for you.

There are many different versions of the 4 most common Decision-Making Styles, however the one I have found over the last 25 years relates best to those of us who struggle with clutter is the one shown on the opposite page. 

People are rarely always or only one of the four types. As with many things, we can have a dominant style in different situations, or a combination of the four e.g. work, personal, relationships etc.

Here is a summary of how each of the decision-making styles may affect your decision making about your clutter.

Analytical

• Writes copious amounts of notes on the Journey for fear or missing something that later turns out to be important, or a need to have evidence of hard work, yet rarely refer back to them unless instructed to do so – then struggles to find them.
• Enjoys Step 1 which is information gathering / problem solving / new challenge, but struggles on Step 2 and beyond which is all about action.
• Struggles with making and managing their time because they like to take as long it takes to do something perfectly rather than ‘good enough’.

Directive

• Won’t take notes because they need to see results before they believe it applies to them.
• Takes the instructions of the Journey literally and if they don’t get the expected result will criticise the instruction rather than think of a possible solution or ask for clarification, help or advice.
• Most likely to give up because they expect to see results quickly and easily early on in their Journey.

Conceptual

• Likes the idea of Clearing their Clutter but doesn’t actually commit to starting their Journey e.g. ‘what if’, eternal Social Gatherer, drama queen.
• Struggles to make decisions or make time because of the ‘what if’s’ of the present / future.
• Picks and chooses which bits of the Journey they feel like doing in the moment.
• Procrasinates at making a decision and actioning to-do list.

Behavioural

• Struggles to make a decision because other people might not like their decision.
• Struggles most to protect their boundaries because of a fear of how to justify / explain their decision to other people. 
• Take on responsibility for other peoples feelings, memories and basic needs.
• Take on responsibility for other people’s clutter.
• Have a lot of things in the Not Sure.

DECISION MAKING STYLE MATRIX

1. Which do you think is YOUR dominant Decision-Making Style?
2. Which style do you think you need to embrace MORE to make it easier to make decisions about the things in your clutter

You can clear your clutter fast, or you can clear your clutter forever, but you can’t clear your clutter forever, fast. 

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