ITL119: How to Make Decisions and Overcome Shyness
In the Loop with Andy Andrews
Matt Lempert
4.9 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2014
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode, I give my two cents on some of my favorite responses to our previous listener question: “If you could have a five-minute phone call with your 18-year-old self, what would you tell yourself to be aware of?”
From our listener…
"Just pick up the phone and make the needed phone call. Just do it. Returning needed phone calls, or calling to confirm, cancel or postpone appointments is part of the process of becoming a responsible, dependable person. Don't shut the door on yourself through negligence caused by shyness and procrastination. Keeping doors open or ensuring good closure is crucial for maintaining good relationships. Faithfulness in little things will lead to bigger things."
Have a decided heart.
• You will get stuck in an ongoing state of analysis.
• I see so many people who spend so much time analyzing decisions they have already made, that they don’t have any emotional or physical energy to do what they have decided.
The Traveler’s Gift was written four years before it was published.
• If I kept analyzing whether or not the book was worth publishing during the years it was turned down, the book wouldn’t be out yet.
• I’m still learning things about the decisions.
In regard to the shyness…
• Most people think that confidence is something that always came easy for me.
• There were times when I was starting out that I would be sick to my stomach, even when a show was more than a week away. I was scared.
• But I knew I wanted people to hear what I had to say.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to In the Loop, a unique opportunity to see life from a different perspective |
| 0:06.2 | with New York Times bestselling author, Andy Andrews. |
| 0:10.1 | Now here's your host. |
| 0:12.2 | Hello and welcome once again to In The Loop with Andy Andrews. |
| 0:16.1 | I'm your host, David Loy, and with me as always is author, speaker extraordinaire, Andy Andrews. Andy, |
| 0:24.1 | thanks for joining us. |
| 0:25.2 | I'm glad to be here, Dave. You didn't know what to call me, didn't you? |
| 0:27.7 | I didn't. I was going to say expert Hunter, Master Grillsman. |
| 0:32.9 | You just don't know. I don't know either. I mean, I've been doing whatever this is that I do, what we laughingly refer to as my career for, you know, I don't know how long. But even like on airplanes, people say, well, you know, what do you do? And I always hesitate. Because I, you know, I don't want to say, well, I'm an author because that always sounds like you think you're a big deal. |
| 0:59.9 | You know, and so a lot of times I say, well, I'm a writer, and people say, what are you write? And I say, well, you know, I'm probably the slowest writer you ever meet, and I just write. |
| 1:05.4 | And then I go, I really don't know what I write. |
| 1:08.9 | And I don't want to say I'm a speaker, because if you've ever seen me speak, you know, |
| 1:13.7 | I always kind of think speakers have, you know, speakers wear suits and they have points. |
| 1:20.6 | Like, I don't know what I'm doing out there sometimes. |
| 1:23.8 | But I tell you what, I sure have a good time doing it, and it sure is nice to know that as close |
| 1:30.1 | as you and I are, David, you don't know what I do either. So what are we talking about today? |
| 1:34.3 | Absolutely. We are talking about our, some of the listener feedback, Andy, I don't know if you |
| 1:39.2 | remember, but a few weeks ago, we did. I hope nobody wrote in and said, what do you do? But go |
| 1:43.6 | ahead. No, we throw those questions away. But a few weeks ago, we did... I hope nobody wrote in and said, what do you do? But go ahead. No, we'd throw those questions away. |
| 1:46.0 | But a few weeks ago, we did an episode about money versus time. |
| 1:53.1 | And that led to a great listener question that resulted in a ton of feedback from the people |
| 1:59.2 | that are listening to this podcast. |
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