Recalculating- Using Critical Thinking for Life Decisions

Ilana & Lee (a father-daughter duo) walk listeners through how to thinking about happiness and fulfillment during their journey to achieving goals. This episode focuses on leveraging the skills in your backpack to help you navigate to where you want to be.

This episode walks you through how to adapt to challenges, failures, and roadblocks along your journey. We focus on how to take failures as an opportunity to learn and grow and how to utilize tools in your backpack and resources from advisors to help you through tougher times.

Adjusting your speed is knowing when to accelerate to your destination, when to slow down, and when to pivot and change your direction. It’s critical to realize when opportunity is knocking and when it’s time to alter your route. For each of these decision points, there is some amount of risk that needs to be understood and addressed. The question is: Can you tip the odds in your favor during risk-taking? Can you mitigate the risk by having a plan B? Can your plan B break down the risk into manageable chunks that can be addressed? Addressing these points means that you will land on your feet even if it turns out to be a bad decision.

About your hosts: Lee & Ilana are a father-daughter duo who created "Recalculating" after identifying the need for guidance when it comes to decision making and long term goal setting. After numerous interviews of life journeys, "Recalculating" has become a guide to help you become the best decision-maker you can be through developing your critical thinking skills.

Active thinking gives you the ability to take things --opportunities, information, decisions -- as they come. It helps you evaluate based on where you are at that given moment/where you want to go in the future. It supports better decision-making with less agonizing about the decision process. Detours come up all the time, and you can either curse the detour for disrupting your journey or use it as an opportunity to explore a new path that you might not have taken otherwise. In that moment when you need to decide whether to turn, how do you know if you are going to end up in the right direction?

About your hosts: Lee & Ilana are a father-daughter duo who created "Recalculating" after identifying the need for guidance when it comes to decision making and long term goal setting. After numerous interviews of life journeys, "Recalculating" has become a guide to help you become the best decision-maker you can be through developing your critical thinking skills.

This episode reviews how to figure out your destination by taking a look at some critical thinking concepts to help you better understand what goals to be working towards and what path to take moving forward.

How to find advisors that positively influence your trajectory and help get you to where you want to go.

What type of navigator are you? Are you the planner, who maps out the steps to where you want to go? The driver, who is energized by a passion that propels you forward? Or are you the explorer, who is using experiences to help guide where to go next? Join us for an engaging episode that helps you get in touch with becoming your own navigator.

About your hosts: Lee & Ilana are a father-daughter duo who created "Recalculating" after identifying the need for guidance when it comes to decision making and long term goal setting. After numerous interviews of life journeys, "Recalculating" has become a guide to help you become the best decision-maker you can be through developing your critical thinking skills.

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This episode goes into methods for evaluating “What’s in your backpack?” to help guide you to better understanding how your skills and experiences help prepare you to achieve your goals.

Welcome to Starting the Journey. This episode details where the idea for Recalculating started, and how the content from the 10 chapters are all you need to take control of your journey and be on your way to achieving your goals.