The Spice Girls became famous with the eternally relevant demand “tell me what you want, what you really really want” …
Each day we have many options, alternate paths that we can take.
Options! A gazillion options.
I’m currently working on “rebranding” my website, social media, etc. The tools available to me are practically limitless!
PicMonkey, Canva, Pinterest, old-fashioned pen & paper with colour swatches! And the font styles. Don’t get me started with the fonts! Do you know I downloaded a program that offered 10,000 fonts!!!
Ten. Thousand. Fonts.
I was hypnotized scrolling through them!
I haven’t selected any from this wonderful download yet. I haven’t looked at it for quite a while. There are too many choices and I get sucked into the deep end of the pool.
Why am I telling you this? Because you are probably paralyzed in some aspect of your life as well. Or do you have it all worked out …
Humans are naturally “shiny object chasers”. We distract ourselves with the next new thing. The next program will help us find success. The next diet will help me lose weight without effort. The next course will teach me all I need to know.
So shelves and computer folders start bulging with an over-abundance of books, binders, information. And if your folders look anything like mine, much of it is only partially viewed.
I think the mental endorphins that are released when we start something new are irresistible. It’s like new love. Who doesn’t love love? Especially before the reality of it starts showing the wear and tear along the pages, edges. Before the contempt and loneliness of familiarity settles in because we’re not richer, or happier, or smarter, or skinnier …
When people have too many choices, they make bad choices.
Thom Browne
Settling for that ONE diet, that ONE program, that ONE font … that’s hard
But not impossible.
I know. I’ve actually hammered down my choices. Clarified my options. Made these decisions. Each time a new set of shiny objects comes flying my way I now have a process that lets me work through my options and indecision
It’s not fast and it’s not easy, but it’s a sure-fire process that will allow you to say, with certainty, “This is what I want”.
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