Good morning. Welcome to the Increase Your Impact podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 1,815. Today we're talking about

avoiding bad decision-making traps. We all make decisions every single day. And there are certain things that we

do and certain things that we don't do that can hinder decision-making. So I want to go over some

traps, some things that make us susceptible to making bad decisions. The first one is called

H-A-L-T-P. H-A-T-P, H stands for hungry, A stands for angry, L stands for lonely, T-stance

for tired, and P is when we're in pain, any kind of

pain, physical, mental, emotional, spiritual pain. When you're experiencing those kind of things,

any one of those states, we are susceptible to letting our guard down. We're a little bit more

impulsive, a little less patient, and more prone to making bad decisions. Number two is focusing on the uncontrollables.

When we focus on things we can't control, we're more susceptible to making bad decisions,

namely the past, the future, and other people. The more we focus on those things, things we have no control over,

the more likely we are to make a bad decision. Number three is mind reading. When we expect

other people to read our minds and we expect to when we expect other people to read ours.

Or when we think we know what other people are thinking and we expect other people to know

what we're thinking. Number four is rushing when we're rushing when we're in a hurry to go somewhere,

hurry to do something, hurry to get to a certain destination, hurry to complete a project,

we're prone to making bad decisions. Number five, information overload. If you have not created an organization

in your mind, if there's too much information coming in, we're likely to miss very important

information. As the saying goes, if you're chasing two rabbits, you catch none. Number six,

uncertainty destroys decision making. It causes us to feel

unsafe, lack security, and when we feel that way, we are prone to making very bad in the

moment decisions. We're willing to sacrifice what we want most for what we want now. And number seven is a new

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