Empowered Decision Making, Part 1

When we talk about the systemic socialization of women through the lens of patriarchy, we aren’t talking about decades or centuries ago.

We are talking about now.

Today.

Still.

Women still live within the gender-bias gap.

Are still doubted as leaders.

Second-guessed.

Still told they cannot make decisions for themselves that are not contingent.

On the approval of others.

On societal “norms.”

On whether people will be pleased or displeased.

On whether everyone’s needs are cared for first.

On expectations of selflessness and propriety.

To not rock the boat, be too shrill, or demanding. To not be so emotional or sensitive.

Women often don’t even see the dichotomies they live within every day.

It’s that engrained.

With this constant criteria imposed upon the lives of women, how can they make confident and self-assured decisions for themselves when society seems to tell girls they are always in need of an authority?

Here’s the thing.

The only authority on your life is you.

So how can you practice empowered decision making?

I’ll share a skill with you in this afternoon’s Coaching Hack.

What are your decisions contingent on?

What criteria must be met before you can make a decision solely for yourself?

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