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The Tom Ferry Podcast Experience

What Kills Momentum | Mindset Monday

The Tom Ferry Podcast Experience

Tom Ferry

Education, Business, Self-improvement

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2024

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

What kills momentum? What shoots you back down every time you’re right on the verge of a breakthrough in your life or business? There are two things, and they’re destroying your ability to make decisions right when you need to most. In this Mindset Monday, I’ll show you what kills momentum and what you can do to shut them down and stay on track.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You know what stops you from being in momentum? Two things, open loops and decision fatigue.

0:07.0

Think about it, if I say to you, hey, what's your plan for the day and you're still thinking about yesterday's in action. You're thinking

0:13.4

about do I really want to go after that you're thinking about should I hire that

0:16.9

person give up oh my goodness I feel like I need to call my wife and

0:20.2

apologize I haven't talked to my son enough you've got all these things these open

0:25.0

loops that you need to close and what happens is when you have too many open

0:29.7

loops you're in your head and when you're in your head you're dead you're not going to be

0:34.5

on my team you're not going to be moving forward so I would challenge you today

0:37.8

to write down what are all the unanswered questions what are all the things that

0:42.4

I'm holding on to that it's time for me to close the loop,

0:44.8

apologize, let it go, move forward, or just say it's done. It's dead and I'm okay with it.

0:50.9

Second one, decision fatigue. Every single day people like you and I are being

0:55.5

asked to make hundreds if not thousands of micro decisions and here's the challenge. Your

1:00.7

momentum dies when you stop deciding. When you start saying

1:03.5

I'll get to that tomorrow or I'm going to put that offer I'm not sure what the best

1:06.5

possible solution is. Now you and I about to understand there's big decisions and

1:10.7

there's little decisions. My most important advice for you is make decisions

1:14.8

faster, especially for the little stuff and on the big stuff I always ask myself the same

1:19.8

three questions. What's the worst case scenario if I move forward with this action?

1:24.4

What's the worst case scenario? I die? Probably unlikely. The worst case scenarios, maybe I

1:29.2

offend a few people, maybe I get a few people upset. I don't know but I list it all out that's the worst case

1:33.6

then I'm like what's the most likely scenario you know the thing that's probably

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