For me, it depends greatly on what the decision is. I used to be a one kind of decision maker: spontaneous 100%. I'm still that way, but I had to learn some lessons about why that worked for me and I had to understand the consequences.
Spontaneous decisions for me are effective because 99% of the time they are coming from my instincts. Chances are my instincts are really listening to my heart and my heart knows long before I do what the right decisions are for my path to stay on heading. At one point in my life, certain decisions I made were not on the "acceptable" list for most of the people in my world and that led me to believe that I should contemplate and think a little more before making any life changing decision. In the end, the thinking turned out to be more about what I thought others "wanted" me to decide... looking for approval from others regarding my choices. That didn't work for me because in the end I was making other people's choices rather than my own. So, for now I follow my heart even when I can't quite explain or understand the decision. It has always steered me in the right direction and so it's all good.
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