A Young Adult’s Guide to Making Life Decisions (Discernment)

1. Remember that before you were born, God had a plan for you. Only in following God will you truly be happy.
Pray for guidance from God.

2. Stay in touch with reality and what is going on in your life. Pay attention to what gifts and talents you have
been given; look at even the small things.

3. Seek advice from people who are wise and who use good judgment. Don’t be afraid to place your thoughts
and plans before the critical eyes of your friends, and/or family, or trusted advisors or instructors. Examine your
alternatives by testing them against experience.

4. Listen to what your mind, your heart, and your intuition tell you. Make sure all three of these “voices” from
your soul are part of the final discernment.

5. Do not make a decision when you are in the middle of a crisis.

6. Know your limits but follow your gifts and talents. Find your passion in life.

7. Be willing to let go of missed opportunities and possibilities you ignored. Your life is a journey and not every
path before you will be chosen; learn to accept the choices made in your life up until now; be willing to move
forward from there.

8. Develop an appropriate sense of timing. Do not act in haste, but do not drag out the decisions either. Break
down your decision-making process into steps that you can manage on a realistic timetable.

9. Once you have to make a decision, you must choose!!!!! Accept the risks of your choice and let go. Cannot
be ambivalent (unable to decide), it will lead to an unfruitful life. Plus, if you don’t make a decision, someone
else will make it for you!

10. Look to Jesus as the model for all decision making. “Father...not my will but yours be done.” Luke 22:42.,
By seeking God’s perfect will in your life, you will experience life to the fullest.

A Young Adult’s Guide to Making Life Decisions (Discernment)

1. Remember that before you were born, God had a plan for you. Only in following God will you truly be happy.
Pray for guidance from God.

2. Stay in touch with reality and what is going on in your life. Pay attention to what gifts and talents you have
been given; look at even the small things.

3. Seek advice from people who are wise and who use good judgment. Don’t be afraid to place your thoughts
and plans before the critical eyes of your friends, and/or family, or trusted advisors or instructors. Examine your
alternatives by testing them against experience.

4. Listen to what your mind, your heart, and your intuition tell you. Make sure all three of these “voices” from
your soul are part of the final discernment.

5. Do not make a decision when you are in the middle of a crisis.

6. Know your limits but follow your gifts and talents. Find your passion in life.

7. Be willing to let go of missed opportunities and possibilities you ignored. Your life is a journey and not every
path before you will be chosen; learn to accept the choices made in your life up until now; be willing to move
forward from there.

8. Develop an appropriate sense of timing. Do not act in haste, but do not drag out the decisions either. Break
down your decision-making process into steps that you can manage on a realistic timetable.

9. Once you have to make a decision, you must choose!!!!! Accept the risks of your choice and let go. Cannot
be ambivalent (unable to decide), it will lead to an unfruitful life. Plus, if you don’t make a decision, someone
else will make it for you!

10. Look to Jesus as the model for all decision making. “Father...not my will but yours be done.” Luke 22:42.,
By seeking God’s perfect will in your life, you will experience life to the fullest.