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Daily Boost — Motivation and Coaching

Too Many Choices Paralysis

Daily Boost — Motivation and Coaching

Scott Smith

Education, Self-improvement, Business, Health & Fitness

3.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Too Many Choices Paralysis Do you have too many choices in your life? Is it confusing and making you feel distressed? In 2005, Barry Schwartz wrote Paradox of Choice and challenged traditional thinking. He said the way to maximum freedom in your life was to minimize choice.   Too many choices are not a good thing and can create paralysis. Not to mention, no matter what you choose, you'll always wonder if you could have done better. Distractions are your enemy, and focus is your friend: Here's how to free up your life: 1) Limit your choices. Narrow your list to items you have already experienced. Having every option won't serve you. 2) Be sure to permit yourself to try other possibilities IF needed - but only after you've vetted your first. 3) Stay in your lane and keep it simple.  Too many choices are part of modern life. If you can't make a decision - shorten your list of options to what is important. Ignore everything else. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's happening? How are ya? Man, happy Wednesday. Happy middle of the week. You know, middle of the week is kind of interesting. It's like, oh man, the week is just dragging on. I wish we'd be over as soon or it's like me. It's like, man, okay. I haven't got enough done yet. Man, I need more of that.

0:29.0

Man, I need more week before I get to my weekend because then I'm not going to do a darn thing. That's for sure. All right, so it's kind of true. Right, the motorcycle will eat, go out to dinner a lot and maybe that.

0:41.0

Yeah. All right. Today talking about choices. I want more choices. Sure you do. Then why are you sitting there doing nothing? I got too many choices. That's right.

0:53.0

Yeah, it's kind of a paradox, isn't it? We'll talk about the paradox today of choice. It is a daily boost from motivation and move.com.

1:00.0

A positive boost you eat every single day, but all is so much more than positive or a practical, tactical, strategic thing that helps you make your life better because here's the thing.

1:10.0

Oh, all those million life coaches with podcast microphones could talk to you about stuff. I can tell you what they read in the book.

1:17.0

But very few are just going to talk to you like you having a beer together about life experience and hard learn lessons from the school hard knocks and you don't have to go through that anymore. That's what this is all about.

1:27.0

And I only want one thing for you. I have no preconceived notion whatsoever about what you want to do or who you are. I don't really care. I don't judge you in any way, shape or form.

1:35.0

Get in my face. Maybe I'll judge you. Okay. I'm a human just like you. But for now, I don't care. I just want you to do this.

1:40.0

Somehow you found your way and you showed up on this show today and maybe it's your first time. Maybe it's your 10,000 time.

1:46.0

Half of I want you to decide what you want your life to be. You live at a time now where you can design your life unlike anybody else in history.

1:56.0

You can do whatever you want to do. There are so many choices out there. My guess is you don't even know how many choices there are.

2:01.0

You don't know how many people they're on this planet. Almost 8 billion. Well, it's it's approaching that it's getting there.

2:07.0

Everyone does something different. If you don't think you can do incredible things.

2:13.0

You need to pay closer attention to what you can do because you can do incredible things.

2:17.0

Oh, that's a motivational speech right there. I just want you to do it. I want you to decide what your life is going to be and no matter what it is today.

2:24.0

If you don't like what you're going to be doing today, just say cool. Maybe you tuned in. Maybe he can talk me and help me to be more positive.

2:29.0

Maybe get a better gig. I will. I'm just going to say you consider that you can change anything you want to and it may need me to leave in a job.

2:35.0

It may mean getting a new relationship. But that's not a bad thing. The other side of it's also it's good. They say the grass isn't greener.

2:42.0

Hell, it isn't. A lot of times is greener over there. I tested the theory. It is and longer too. All right.

2:51.0

Let's talk about choices. Too many choices in your life.

2:57.0

It is confusing and it is stressful and it's not good and my friends, we have too many choices right now.

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