hmmmm sage advice???

Well, first I would advise you to make it a policy, with yourself, that you never "--" at that very moment. If it's a big purchase, you get all the info, and tell the salesman you never buy the first time you're thinking about it. That would include telephone sales calls too... tell them you'll think about it, but you never buy over the phone on impulse.

For activity, like moving, you have to find a good spread of time that will work for you. Think back over your other impulsive moves and try and see if by taking how much more time prior, that it might have helped you to make adifferent decision. This one, for me, usually requires my T to tell me something along the lines of he doesn't think it's the right thing for me to do right now... and how waiting a little bit, and discussing it in therapy, might help me see when the best time or decision will be.

Breathe! Promise yourself you won't decide anything on the spur of the moment. Make it a pattern. Even if it's a milkshake you want... put the thought aside for a bit... make sure that is what you want and will satiate that desire.

Have any of you seen the commercial where a young woman is in an apartment kitchen, making dinner, with the tv on a home shopping channel... the sales girl is counting down how many are left and urging them to hurry up and buy before it's gone... the young woman grabs her credit card from the freezer and tries to hack at it to break it out of the ice... and inadvertantly knocks the tv control to another channel... one talking about how easy it is to buy a house, save money for it etc....

Sometimes our impulsiveness denies us the things we really want. Try and make a GOAL list... place it in a prominent place so you see it... try and make decisions that propel you towards those goals... or won't take you too far off, or delay you much.

Take your meds. lol