A Tip For Making Hard Decisions

Practicing Human

Cory Muscara

Self Improvement, Health & Fitness, Meditation, Happiness, Mindfulness, Education, Personal Development, Wellness, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Presence, Positive Psychology, Self-improvement, Buddhism

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🗓️ 17 March 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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In this episode, we discuss the importance of deeply embodying your "no's" before being able to fully and cleanly say yes.

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0:00.0	Hello, and welcome back to Practicing Human, the podcast where every day we're getting
0:05.0	a little better at life.
0:06.8	I'm your host, Corey Muscarra, and in today's episode we're going to talk about the importance
0:11.4	of knowing your know in order to know your yes.
0:15.2	More to come on that in a moment, first let's settle in together with the sound of the
0:19.4	bells.
0:30.0	Okay, so if you're a human being, chances are you have to make decisions in life.
0:45.6	Some of them are easier decisions, like, what am I going to have for breakfast today?
0:49.8	Am I going to shower or not?
0:52.0	Sometimes these can be hard decisions, but other times we have more significant decisions.
0:57.3	Should I take this job or not?
0:59.8	Should I stay in this relationship or not?
1:02.8	And these can be really hard to understand and to get a clear yes and a no on.
1:09.8	And I think a lot of torment for people is often the space of ambiguity, not sure if something
1:14.6	is a yes or a no.
1:16.8	And I think when we're really trying and pushing for a yes, we tend to focus primarily on
1:23.3	all the things that we like about the scenario and really tell ourselves all the goodness
1:29.5	about this thing, this person, this opportunity and convince ourselves of it.
1:36.0	And it's not like it's false.
1:39.3	We're just really playing up the good side of this decision, which we should know if we're
1:44.7	going to go into something.
1:47.1	And then as it relates to the downsides of it, we might touch on it, but not necessarily
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