Good morning and welcome to the Increased Rain Pact podcast. I'm Justin Sue, episode 2,2007.

There's a concept called The Paradox of Choice. And essentially it states the more options you have, the more stressed you become, the more distracted you get, and the worse you tend to perform.

So in other words, it comes down to a statement we've said many times on this podcast,

more isn't better, better is better. And we talk about attention and the finite resource attention

and how it is limited and how we give power to what we focus on. But it's not just a matter of

directing our focus and our attention. It's also a matter of knowing what to ignore.

And as we always talk about, that's where systems come in. A well-designed performance system

that you design for yourself reduces the amount of decisions you have to make. It narrows your options. It makes the right thing

easier to do and the wrong thing harder to do. The truth that most people miss is that the better

you want to be, the fewer options you could afford. If you want to be physically fit,

you don't have many options beyond consistency, working out, and properly fueling your body. If you want to be physically fit, you don't have many options beyond consistency, working out, and properly fueling your body.

If you want to be great at your craft, you don't have many options outside of seeking critical feedback, embracing the boredom of consistency, and staying humble.

If you want to be a great leader, you don't have many options outside of execution, caring about your people,

and bringing out the best in others. So the key to design a system is to make sure that you leave

yourself fewer ways to fail by reducing your options. And so my invitation to you today is today, make one

decision in advance in an area that you usually get distracted and decide one time, write it down,

don't revisit it, decide what you are going to do eliminate all other options pick a pick a path and just

go that way and then after you make that decision after you make that that choice pay attention to

go back and notice what that simple decision did for you and to you that was an excerpt from

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