Hello and thanks for joining us here for a special mini episode on Monday, July 3rd.

If you're new to this show because you heard me on Science of Success or Coaching for Leaders,

I saw a huge download Spike, so I think there are many of y'all

welcome it's so good to have you. The spiel here is we tend to do a show every

Monday, Wednesday, and Friday but when the Monday falls on a holiday or a pseudo-ish holiday, July 3rd, this time,

I do a little solo episode so that no guest gets a tiny listener ship because everyone is out and travel and not in their regular

groove. So stay tuned Wednesday. We'll hear from Sarah Kennedy talking about blind spots in your

career. But today I want to share with you two questions

that improve every decision. If I'm thinking about 4th of July Independence Day. I think if this is approached to declare your

independence from suboptimal decisions. And what got me thinking about this

lately is I've been doing a lot of coaching on some problem solving stuff, the chief product officer of this software company,

hired me to work with his team and do some one-on-one coaching, which is a lot of fun because these are super brilliant people.

And in so doing, we saw some themes and patterns.

And as I tried to kind of summarize the core thing

that we were teaching, it really just

came down to these two key questions.

Whenever you're trying to frame up a question, how should I approach it, how should I

get after it, I think these questions can provide just massive epic clarity way up front and here's

question number one what must be true for this decision to be a good one.

And question number two is, how can I test that?

So that's the scoop.

What must be true for this to be a good decision?

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