My Decision-Making Protocol (taken from Christopher Alexander)

This is extracted from Christopher Alexander's, The Nature of Order. I added the numbering. It has helped me in unbelievable ways. Most of the language involved with ADHD advice has "doing" language but I respond most to "being" language if that makes any sense. The purpose is not to necessarily answer all the questions but to at least ask one to yourself and of yourself. Of course, I don't use it always but I want to. I want to be guided by the Whole in all things.

0. What is the next step which most intensifies the feeling of the emerging whole?

  1. Which of the two seems to generate a greater feeling of life in me?
  2. Which of the two makes me more aware of my own life?
  3. Which of the two induces a greater harmony in me, in my body and in my mind?
  4. Which of the two makes me feel a greater wholesomeness in myself?
  5. Considering my self as a whole that embraces all my dimensions and many internal opposites, I then ask which of the two is more like my best self, or which of the two seems more like a picture of my eternal self?
  6. Which of the two makes me feel devotion, or inspires devotion in me?
  7. Which of the two makes me more aware of God, or makes me feel closer to God?
  8. When I try to observe the expanding and contracting of my humanity, which of the two causes a greater expansion of my humanity?
  9. Which of the two has more feeling in it or, more accurately, which of the two makes me experience a deeper feeling of unity in myself?