Welcome to the Art of Accomplishment, where we explore how deepening connection with ourselves and others leads to creating the life we want with enjoyment and ease.

I'm Brett Kistler, here today with my co-host, Joe Hudson.

Good morning, Joe.

Hey, good morning. How are you?

Doing great. It's crazy out there right now, economically. I'm having a lot of people in my world and

coaching clients facing what feels like to be facing some pretty big decisions. And so this has been something that's sort of been, you know, up for me lately

is just sort of sitting in this, the kind of perception that people often have

that if we make emotional decisions, we can't trust them.

Like we can't trust our decisions when there's emotions involved.

And so we need to be

rational, get emotions out of it. Yeah. That happened to me this morning. Actually, I was

speaking to an entrepreneur in Israel who, same thing said. The number one problem he was having

was decision making. And also, if I recall correctly, also talked about rational decision-making,

which as we've talked about many times, there is no such thing as rational decision-making.

But what's really true is that if you, you like i would say it like this if you make a decision from

depression it's most likely to bring more depression if you if you make a decision from

um trauma it's most likely to bring more trauma if you make a decision from trauma, it's most likely to bring more trauma.

If you make a decision from happiness, it's more likely to bring more happiness.

Or the other way to think about it is that happy people seem to make decisions that continue to make them happy.

And depressed people seem to make the decisions that make them more depressed.

So I get the idea of like, oh, I don't want to make an emotional decision.

It's just impossible.

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