In order to make good decisions, you need to have a certain maturity. Otherwise the goals will not be clear, you won’t take into account your true strengths and limitations, and, in the end you might make decisions for all the wrong reasons.
Here are some signs of maturity and immaturity:
Signs of maturity:
Signs of immaturity
Before making a decision, take your emotional temperature. It helps to know what produces positive or negative feelings in you: Which of your life experiences are most difficult for you to accept? Do they trouble you every time you remember them? What are the significant events in your past life that you believe are the foundation of your present life?
What events and decisions are more directly related to your present moment? When you think about the future, what is the dominant feeling: hope and anticipation or fear and mistrust?
—Adapted from ACIT Joven
(Teresian Association)
¡OYE! 2005