tertiary · Avoiding

Distracting

Part of the Decision-Making Clarity Wheel

What is Distracting?

Filling your mind with anything except the decision. Busyness as avoidance.

When you might feel distracting

Distracting is a specific form of escaping, which itself is a type of avoiding. You might experience this feeling in situations where avoiding is present, particularly when the circumstances align with the nuances that define distracting.

Emotional Hierarchy

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Use our free interactive feeling wheel to explore distracting and discover related emotions.

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Related Emotions

Postponing

Pushing the decision into the future. Later always seems better than now....

Delaying

Creating reasons to wait. You're buying time you may not need....

Stalling

Actively preventing progress toward a decision. Movement feels dangerous....

Passing-The-Buck

Trying to make it someone else's decision. You don't want the responsibility....

Seeking-Permission

Waiting for external validation or authority to choose for you....

Delegating

Attempting to hand off the decision. You want to escape the burden....

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