You Are The Brand

BYP 152: The 5 Psychological Steps Behind Why You Delay Decisions


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Decisions, decisions, decisions! Have you ever had to make a decision and kept delaying it?

There's actually a 5-step psychological process behind why you get excited to make a change in your life -- and then fail to follow through:

  1. Satisfaction
  2. Dissatisfaction
  3. Emotional Brink
  4. Moment of Insight
  5. The Opening

That's what we're going to talk about on this episode. Once we understand how we make decisions, then we can make better ones and break the cycle.

In this episode I share:

  • The root meaning of the word "decide"
  • Why, when helping others, you must only do everything you SHOULD, and not everything you CAN
  • The power behind the phrase, "There must be more to my life than ____..."

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