Decision Masters

Ok - negative consequences aren't fun, but the good news is: getting better at dealing with them will help you become more decisive!

 Let's talk about the importance of dealing with undesirable outcomes, understanding self-blame, and enhancing emotional processing and stress recovery.  

 We'll also touch on the need...

Struggling to make decisions? You might just be stuck comparing reality to what could be—and it's draining your energy.

This episode breaks down how accepting what is helps you be more decisive, trust your choices, and stop wasting time in indecision.

We're talking about:

• How to be honest about what you truly dislike (in a non-drive-yourself-crazy-with-comparison kind of way)
• The import...

In this installment of the series on How to Become More Decisive (woot!) I discuss a crucial but often overlooked aspect of decisiveness: choosing not to make a decision right now.

Many people, including my clients, struggle with feeling indecisive when they defer decisions.

Today, I'm explaining how rethinking this behavior as a conscious choice can transform your self...

This new series (!) is all about making decisions easier and more efficient using bite-sized wisdom.

 Today, we'll explore how my dad's philosophy on saving money can help us clear mental and physical clutter, making it easier to become more decisive.  

The main takeaway? If you want to be more decisive, then 51% of the time, you ha...

How do you organize the chaos pile that is your brain when you're thinking about changing jobs? 

You pay attention to what decisions you're tasking yourself with, and what the most valuable questions are to answer next!

Here are the logistics steps that make it easier for my clients to change jobs while remaining as clear-headed as possible:

• THE MATH: Know your numbers so you can trust your choices and keep ...

Here's something that comes up often when people are considering changing jobs - and it can lead you to staying somewhere you don't truly want to be for YEARS.

The fear of "leaving people in the lurch" - aka, "quitting guilt." 

What will happen if I leave before X Project is done, while Y Person already has too much on their plate...what if the whole place falls apart!

This episode will help you:

• Articulate exact...

Your overthinking, over-active, over-anxious brain might not like this episode.

But YOU will, so listen on.

Today's lessons will truly apply to any big decision — but since the decision to change jobs can be such a fraught one (that can take years to work through), we're using that one for context.

Here's what we're talking about today:

• My best strategy for deflating the overwhelm of ALL the things to f...

How many years (decades?) have you been struggling with these questions?

Am I doing a good enough job?

What that a good enough response?

Did I do well enough today?

Am I good enough?

Fundamentally, these are good questions to keep us on track to live the lives we want, including all the achievement and fulfillment our hearts desire.

Practically, however...they end up a lot less USEFUL day-to-day.

This episode will hel...

We're pulling from the DEEP archives today, y'all!

You may or may not be familiar with the Principles of SIMPLE Decision-Making.

Regardless, they're worth a revisit because you're guaranteed to hear something you absolutely need to hear today — to make your life easier and decisions clearer!

Today's episode is all about MAKEABLE decisions:

• How to spot when you're stressing over NON-makeable decisions
• Wh...

Welcome back to one of the most popular episodes of 2023!

So many choices are influenced by our fear of eliciting certain reactions from other people.

This is FOPO in action: Fear of People's Opinions.

It swoops in to compel us to not say what we mean, not advocate for what we want, agree to stuff we don’t want to do...

And while it often happens on a small sc...

I like to think of goals as mountains you want to climb.

An obstacle "at the trail head" for a lot of people is this big misunderstanding: That you need a perfect routine and/or to go 110% HAM in order to achieve a goal.

If you've been frustrated at your lack of progress on a goal (or starting, period) - but you also can't (or don't want to!) get into systematized daily routine, or take a week off ...

Are you stuck in regret? Ruminating on past decisions? Overthinking choices you could have (or "should have") made differently, and imagining how life would be different right now?

Whether you're mad about something TODAY because of last week or you're contemplating your entire LIFE, this episode will help you.

In all 140 episodes, #29 has received the most feedback - so let's bring it back to the top of the ...

In this week's revisit episode, we're talking about being BEHIND.

But we're NOT talking about how to catch up on the mountains of stuff you're behind on.

No time management — No delegating — No uber-efficient productivity plans.

In reality, those are all Tylenol. 💊

Sometimes they help make the pain go away. 

But they never address the root cause