What does it mean to ask, How does your philosophy affect your decisions?

Question

I have a hard time understanding philosophy, so if you can break it down in the most basic form, I'd appreciate it.

Answer 1

It means:

How do your morals, ethics, views, understandings and opinions of things affect the decisions that you make in your life?

Answer 2

To ask good questions means (or implies) you've applied your knowledge or wisdom on the matter. Moreover, such an approach or the means justifies the ends or the solutions of what you're searching. In other words, practical questions help us to wisely probe or reflect or meditate till we achieve the solutions. Therefore, our philosophy affects our decisions by means of rationailty, logic, theory of knowledge, morality, aestetics, etc.