The best way to do it, say the experts, is to grab paper and pen and put together a list of all of the advantages and disadvantages of each option. You can use any rating system you like, but we favor the basic 1-to-10.
Then do some quick arithmetic. “You’ll normally find that one option comes out with a distinctly better score,” says Dr.Ellis. If you don’t make such a list, he warns, you risk allowing your emotions to give a disproportionate weight to a single aspect.
He gives as an example a young man he knows who purchased a flashy-but quite undependable-car simply because it turbocharged his ego. Naturally, the guy soon found himself with a car he was kicking more than driving.