ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests processes that strengthen the planner's decision-making capability. It describes types of career choices, proposes a three-part decision-making approach, and deals with ideas about how to make good choices. In addition to charting the planner's career, solid decision-making supports choices made within the planning practice, such as making a recommendation on a plan amendment. The chapter outlines how feelings, rational thoughts, and the murmurs of the soul can be considered. A solid decision-making process accounts for the fact that decisions are made in a fluid, unpredictable world. Feelings are often related to the part of people that has a goal of self-preservation of the current version of "them". Rational thought is good at clarifying mean/ends relationships and following cause and effect, but it is not enough to provide the only guidance on ends. The soul element of decision-making is active when a planner senses an alignment and rightness in the situation or opportunity.
