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Making Gut-Wrenching Decisions—Part 2: How to Help Yourself Make Better Decisions
Get ready! I’m about to share with you the strategies I use to make gut-wrenching decisions not so gut-wrenching! To help mitigate any of that nasty fear, indecisiveness, and overall suffering that comes with making tough choices.
The first tactic might come as a surprise for all you go-getters out there, but it only means that it’s even more crucial for you to understand….
1) It’s Time to Lower the Bar!
While I know that it’s awesome to have standards and expectations, sometimes we set the bar so high that we will entirely avoid taking any steps toward what we want under the premise of it being “unrealistic”. Many times, this is just a manifestation of our own fears and insecurities.
I’ve found that the best way to work with this fear-based thinking is to make the conscious effort to reduce your expectations by 10%.
This is not to say that you should completely disregard what you truly desire– you can still maintain the full integrity of your goal, but also cut yourself some slack and take off some of the paralyzing pressure.
