And hello to you and welcome to the Richard Nichols podcast, the personal development podcast series that's here to help inspire, educate and motivate you to be the best you can be.

I'm psychotherapist Richard Nichols and this episode is titled Difficult Decisions. And if you're

ready, we'll start the show. Hello there, you gorgeous bundle of atoms and molecules.

Amazing to think that that's all we really are, isn't it?

That that's what makes up everything in the universe, atoms and molecules and how they all

interact. No wonder we've evolved to attach to each other. Even at an atomic level, every part of

us only really does anything if it's alongside something else,

let alone as fully conscious creatures. We don't do too well on our own, do we? In order to get

through life, we do really need other people to help us through it, even if the introverts

try to sometimes think that we don't.

Yeah, they know deep down that they do.

Even if it's just to say, hey, what do you think of this?

Because we don't want to decide on things on our own, do we?

It's no secret that making decisions when you've got lots of choices

causes us to freeze and end up making no decisions at all.

I spoke about it a lot. Businesses have long known that too much choice means fewer sales,

yet restaurants will so often give us these enormous menus with so much choice, when we'd have a much better time,

if there were just like four things to choose from, not you're getting those little bistro restaurants.

Because there's less chance of regret.

Even choosing a TV program to watch can be a nightmare.

When I was really young, we only had three TV channels. Channel

4 didn't start until November 1882. Happy birthday for tomorrow, Channel 4, just before my 7th birthday.

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