Hello and welcome to the teen life coach podcast. I'm your host, Mikkel, and today we are talking

about decision making. Guys, what's up? How are y'all doing today? I hope that everything in life is wonderful.

And today we are going to talk about making decisions. And if you're anything like me,

making decisions is a challenge. I have a tendency to want to very much overthink my decisions and try to do them

perfectly. And it's something I've been working on a lot with myself is really getting myself

to a place where I feel confident and comfortable with my decisions and I'm not always second

guessing myself. So I think a lot about decision making and

wanted to do a podcast for you guys on it. Now decisions are interesting because they take a lot of

brain energy. Our brain has to think really, really hard to make decisions.

And naturally that exhausts us. And so it is normal that a lot of times we'll want to put off making decisions

or avoid them if possible because it is hard for our brains.

And sometimes we're perfectionistic about our decisions.

We want to make the perfect decisions so we can experience life as best as possible.

And we think that somehow by choosing the right decision right now,

then we can control the future and we can avoid future pain and make sure everything in the future is just

great and amazing. But the reality is like in this moment when you're making a decision like you have

no idea what's going to happen in the future right? And so we can kind of drive ourselves a little

bit crazy trying to make a perfect decision about what to do and trying to figure out

what the best decision is. When really we can kind of guess, but we feel like we don't have a way

of knowing. And so one of the things we like to do is something I call decision outsourcing. And what that means is we think other people

around us know best and that they're going to be better able to make the decision. And so we hand

our decisions to them. We ask other people, what do you think? Should I do this? Should I do that?

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