937. The 3 S's Of Decision-Making.

Most people aren’t stuck because they made the wrong decision.
They’re stuck because they never made any decision at all.

In this episode, I’m breaking down how to build momentum in your life by using what I call the 3 S’s of Decision-Making:
Speed. Simplicity. Sustainability.

If you’ve been second-guessing yourself… stuck in neutral… or waiting for the “perfect” answer, you need to hear this.

Here’s what you’ll walk away with:

• A mindset shift that helps you stop overthinking and start moving
• A proven filter to make quicker decisions with less stress
• The difference between outcome-oriented vs. direction-oriented thinking
• Why waiting for clarity is killing your momentum
• And how to make a decision right, even if it wasn’t the “right” one

This episode is your permission to stop waiting and start acting.

PS. "Let me think about it" is not a decision. :(

🎧 Listen now. Then move.
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Transcript

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All right. 3, 2, 1. Let's get it. We're gonna make this like a, a drive through podcast. 10 minutes or less. hot and fresh. fresh. That's what, that's what I wanna do, man. I want to get these things just locked in. Get you in, get you out. And get you on with your life. Welcome to What's Your Problem, the podcast. We're here. We tackle three universal problems. We all face adversity, uncertainty, and complacency using five core skills, life skills. And they all start with the letter C, communication, curiosity, creativity, continuous learning and action, productive confrontation. Alright, we gotta get this thing, we gotta get in and out. So thank you so much for being apart this morning. In my random reading, I'm reading out of, uh. Let's see, Jason Fried, hopefully, I don't know if it's free or fried. Jason Fried and David Hanson's book Rework. I really love this book. Um, it's short to the point. Um, and just some really good nuggets about that. And specifically what I came across this morning was talking about making decisions and most importantly, I didn't say make decisions better. It's about making decisions. And not overthinking the decisions because by and large, man most people are terrified of making the wrong decision. So they make no decision at all, and they are like scared to be wrong. So many times people look at the end result before making a decision, so they think, well, this is how it's gonna play out, and. Because they're not really sure if they can actually, they're unsure if that's how it's really gonna play out. Most times, if you think about it, they don't make a decision at all. They just like delegate it to someone else., People gravitate to all these leaders in the world, those leaders. They just make a decision and it's not like it's a hundred percent correct. It's not that way at all Think about decisions like this. You can do something theoretically. Blueprint all the way through. It ends up being an unfavorable outcome. I mean, it just wasn't, well, this wasn't right. But then sometimes man, you can make the wrong decision and it ends up being right, like who knows? So you don't know., And sometimes along the way you'll make a decision and it ends up not being right, but then you stumble across something that creates the spark and you're like, oh my God. And there's your breakthrough. You just crack the code all because, and, but you wouldn't have achieved that. And you wouldn't have seen that had you not made a decision. The authors notate that you gotta get into a rhythm of making decisions, not perfect decisions, and they're not permanent decisions, but. You just gotta start making decisions because with making decisions, decisions are habits. Aristotle says, we are what we repeatedly do. Okay. Decisions. Making decisions are habits. You've gotta get in the habit of doing those things. They're not gonna fix themselves. They're not just going to decide if, if they do decide, okay, it's not gonna be the outcome that you want anyway. So take control of your life and start making these, decisions because when you do, this is how you develop momentum in your life and what that momentum creates, the clarity. Now, a lot of times people don't make decisions because they're unclear with how it's gonna play out. But just make a decision and through the reps and the experience you're going to develop, the clarity. I had to decide back in 2017 I was gonna create this podcast, okay? And the only thing I I could talk about was sales and life. Which is why I called the podcast initially, the sales life, and then along the way with momentum. Then I said, you know what? The skills that I use in the profession I can use in my everyday life, and so instead of segmenting a sales podcast or life podcast, I put the two together. It's not salespeople against customers and customers against salespeople. Selling is a way of life. Selling is a life skill. And so see the iterations, this is how things begin to take form, take shape, and many, many iterations. See how you start now is not how you're gonna finish. It's not. So you just make decisions. Stop worrying about, you know, it's not gonna be linear, dude. It's going to have jagged edges. It's gonna be all over the place, but you just have head in the direction, make a decision. And then if you need to make the decision, right? I love what Dr. Ellen Langer says about that. So people are so fixated. She's like, there is no such thing as a wrong decision or a right decision. Just make a decision and then make the decision, right? You just course correct along the way. I did an episode, I don't know, sometime back few months ago about that very same thing. So decisions are going to create momentum, clarity, and also separation. The separation is important because most people, by and large, they're all clumped together, and these are clumps of non-decision makers. But when you begin to get into the habit of just making decisions, people gravitate toward that leadership. They gravitate that you have the confidence to just. Call the shot, go and then you can course correct. Just keep it real, man. Just course correct. Along the way, not everything is going to land a hundred percent okay? Some things are 10%, but that 10% may look like today, may look like it's not favorable, but then a decade from now, it's very favorable because that happened then a decade before, and now you can use it right then and there. The problem is people treat decisions as one-way doors when in fact, they're two way doors. Jeff Bezos talks about this. Most decisions are two-way doors, meaning that you can go and then you can always come back. If you need to recalibrate, recenter, and then go a different direction if need be, they're, they're very rarely ever one-way doors, meaning you go through'em and there's the point of no return. The authors put it like this, you can't build on top of, I'll decide later. You can't build on the shoulder shrugs. You can only build on top of done. You don't have to be great to start. But you do have to start to be great. So you gotta, you gotta, you gotta get in this rhythm, man. You gotta get after it. So here are the three S's of decision making, speed, simplicity, and sustainability. That's it. So when you're in these crossroads, trying to figure things out, okay, number one, you need speed creates the momentum. Just make a decision, even if you're unclear about it. Head in a direction. It's gonna take many shapes and sizes anyway. Speed. Boom. Get into the habit of boom, making a decision. Stop procrastinating. Number two, simplicity. You don't need more time, you don't need more resources. You don't need more people. You don't, as a matter of fact, you actually need less. I was reading Walter Isaacson's,, biography about Elon Musk and. Eline, whether it be rockets or, or, or, or cars. He was always trying to figure out how he could eliminate, like using what they already had and then eliminate the waste, like shave these things off. Do we absolutely have to have these things? So he was working from a principle of simplicity simplicity. Is what unlocks the creativity. Again, you don't need more things. Stop looking that you need to give more time, more people, more resources. You actually need to give less. What can I eliminate? This is why I end the podcast with Keep It Simple. This is how I develop all my podcast episodes. Simple. Two pages, three pages, that's it. Boom. Deliver the message. And then sustainability. This is important because can you keep this thing going? Can you keep the ball bouncing? If not, cut the fluff, trim it down, keep these things simple. So, speed, simplicity, sustainability. See, decisions aren't. That hard? They're not. We make it hard because this three pounds is sitting on top of our neck because you're trying to decide an outcome you don't know. Again, it could be perfectly, it can be theoretically, right?'cause you don't know what works for me is not gonna work for you. What works for you may not work for me. So there's many shapes and sizes. I could take fragments of what you use, and you could take fragments of what I use. So you just pick a direction. I know where I'm going. Head there. Speed, simplicity, keep things simple all the time. Simplicity. What can I eliminate? And then sustainability. This is a lifestyle. Okay? Start with free. What do you already have? Start using it. This is the curiosity and creativity aspect that I coach on. Earn what you need only through the reps, you'll develop the efficiencies and a lot of what you need is eliminating the shit that you don't need and then earn what you want. That's pro level. This is when you leverage all of the experience, all of the decisions, okay? You start getting these exponential returns sometimes, man, this is an infinite game we're playing. So you get these exponential returns and then you can leverage that to make even bigger decisions from there. Alright? Start making decisions. So let me start with you. What decision are you just locked up on right now? What have you been procrastinating. Procrastinating. I'll decide later is not a decision. Make a decision and then make the decision, right. All right. Thanks for sharing today's episode. Keep it simple, keep it moving. Never settle. Stay tough. Peace.