Decision Ease

Let’s talk about that low-key fear that shapes your day more than you realize. In this episode, I’m walking you through a simple mindset tool I used almost every day during a trip abroad last year — and how it helped me make clearer, more confident choices instead of letting fear or resistance decide for me. Plus, it's one of the most  critical questions you can ask when making a big ("scary"...

Feeling overwhelmed? All the small tasks you keep putting off might be contributing (more than you think)! This week’s episode is your permission slip to hit pause on everything else and reclaim your peace — with a Bottom-of-the-List Day. Here's where we go:  ✅ Why those “not urgent, not important” tasks mega-drain your energy ✅ How unfinished tasks create open loops and quiet anxiety ✅ A...

This week, we’re throwing it back to one of my favorite episodes from 2023: the Midyear Reflect & Reset .  It includes a free downloadable worksheet to help you do a simple, powerful reset no matter when you're listening. You'll walk away with: A guided framework for taking stock of your year so far Prompts to celebrate wins, honor hard stuff, and course-correct with clarity One crucial q...

Are you actually overthinking… or just being thorough? And how do you tell the difference? In this quick episode, we’re digging into one of the biggest mindset traps I see with clients — and giving you super actionable ways to take your decision-making process off auto-pilot (without forcing yourself to "just go faster"). We’ll cover: ✅ How to tell if your decision process is a problem — or just...

This week, we’re tackling one of the sneakiest habits high-functioning overthinkers fall into: making everything harder than it needs to be. From your day-to-day to your biggest goals, overcomplicating your plans might be costing you time, energy, and results — and today, I’m showing you how to stop. I’m walking you through two real-life examples (one goal-oriented, one daily-life related), and gi...

What happens when a former anxious overthinker goes to London with no plan? This week, I’m walking you through the real-life experiment I ran last month: a 4-day solo trip to London with one plan (see the Harry Potter show) and zero itinerary. My goal? To enjoy myself without burning brain energy on constant second-guessing or planning every minute of the day. In this episode, I’m sharing the deci...

Ok so you're an expert second-guesser.  I've gotchyoo. And I've got a super simple solution for you too: You just need to change where your attention goes after you make a decision. This episode is about one of the most common friction points I help clients with: the habit of second-guessing. It’s not about perfection or not caring about mistakes — it’s about interrupting...

You don’t need to become a ruthless, self-centered robot to start owning what you want. You do need to stop writing your entire life around other people’s possible reactions. This episode is a mix of personal reflection (it’s my birthday!🥳), decision coaching gold, and some truth bombs that might hit close to home. Especially if you’ve been unknowingly structuring your choices around approval, av...

So... I got a tattoo. In a foreign country. On what looked like a whim. But (spoiler) this episode is about much more than ink. It’s about what happens when you hit a stretch of life that feels like one transition too many — and how to reclaim your role as the chooser of your own life, even when you can’t control everything happening in it. Here’s where we go: The story behind my “impulse” tattoo...

If you're already fried and summer hasn’t even started yet...this episode’s for you. Because May — or Maycember , as some know it — has a way of draining the life out of you with nonstop events, decisions, and that special blend of chaos, guilt, and calendar overload. Here’s where we go in this episode: Spot the invisible energy drains that can make this month feel so heavy Get 3 tools to mak...

Today, we’re bridging the gap between decisiveness and self-regulation. Learn how to become a more effective decision-maker by understanding and managing your physiological, mental, and emotional states. We'll talk about:  What to do when you have to decide NOW vs. when you can wait   How you need different self-regulation tools for different states Why regularly  self-regulati...

Ok - negative consequences aren't fun, but the good news is: getting better at dealing with them will help you become more decisive!   Let's talk about the importance of dealing with undesirable outcomes, understanding self-blame, and enhancing emotional processing and stress recovery.       We'll also touch on the need to stay on your own team and embrace regret as part o...

Struggling to make decisions? You might just be stuck comparing reality to what could be —and it's draining your energy. This episode breaks down how accepting what is helps you be more decisive, trust your choices, and stop wasting time in indecision. We're talking about: How to be honest about what you truly dislike (in a non-drive-yourself-crazy-with-comparison kind of way) The importance of pr...

In this installment of the series on  How to Become More Decisive  (woot!) I discuss a crucial but often overlooked aspect of decisiveness: choosing not to make a decision right now. Many people, including my clients, struggle with feeling indecisive when they defer decisions. Today, I'm explaining how rethinking this behavior as a conscious choice can transform your self-perce...

This new series (!) is all about making decisions easier and more efficient using bite-sized wisdom.   Today, we'll explore how my dad's philosophy on saving money can help us clear mental and physical clutter, making it easier to become more decisive.     The main takeaway? If you want to be more decisive, then 51% of the time, you have to want the decision to be done MORE tha...

How do you organize the chaos pile that is your brain when you're thinking about changing jobs?  You pay attention to what decisions you're tasking yourself with, and what the most valuable questions are to answer next! Here are the logistics steps that make it easier for my clients to change jobs while remaining as clear-headed as possible: THE MATH: Know your numbers so you can trust y...

Here's something that comes up often when people are considering changing jobs - and it can lead you to staying somewhere you don't truly want to be for YEARS. The fear of "leaving people in the lurch" - aka, "quitting guilt."  What will happen if I leave before X Project is done, while Y Person already has too much on their plate...what if the whole place falls apart! This episode will help...

Your overthinking, over-active, over-anxious brain might not like this episode. But YOU will, so listen on. Today's lessons will truly apply to  any big decision — but since the decision to change jobs can be such a fraught one (that can take  years to work through), we're using that one for context. Here's what we're talking about today: My best strategy for deflating the overwhelm...

How many years (decades?) have you been struggling with these questions? Am I doing a good enough job? What that a good enough response? Did I do well enough today? Am I good enough? Fundamentally, these are good questions to keep us on track to live the lives we want, including all the achievement and fulfillment our hearts desire. Practically, however...they end up a lot less USEFUL day-to-...

We're pulling from the DEEP archives today, y'all! You may or may not be familiar with the Principles of SIMPLE Decision-Making. Regardless, they're worth a revisit because you're guaranteed to hear  something you absolutely need to hear today — to make your life easier and decisions clearer! Today's episode is all about MAKEABLE decisions: How to spot when you're stressing over NON...

Welcome back to one of the most popular episodes of 2023! So many choices are influenced by our fear of eliciting certain reactions from other people. This is FOPO in action: Fear of People's Opinions. It swoops in to compel us to not say what we mean, not advocate for what we want, agree to stuff we don’t want to do... And while it often happens on a small scale, it can impact HUGE life...

I like to think of goals as mountains you want to climb. An obstacle "at the trail head" for a lot of people is this big misunderstanding: That you need a perfect routine and/or to go 110% HAM in order to achieve a goal. If you've been frustrated at your lack of progress on a goal (or starting, period) - but you also can't (or don't want to!) get into systematized daily ro...

Are you stuck in regret? Ruminating on past decisions? Overthinking choices you could have (or "should have") made differently, and imagining how life would be different right now? Whether you're mad about something TODAY because of last week or you're contemplating your entire LIFE, this episode will help you. In all 140 episodes, #29 has received the most feedback - so let's bring it back to the...

In this week's revisit episode , we're talking about being BEHIND. But we're NOT talking about how to catch up on the mountains of stuff you're behind on. No time management — No delegating — No uber-efficient productivity plans. In reality, those are all Tylenol. 💊 Sometimes they help make the pain go away.  But they never address the  root cause   of the probl...

This may be a revisit of a previous episode (#121), but January is a  perfect time to update your Core Values! Whether you're going through a big life change or you've simply experienced an internal "season shift," now is a great time to check in and update your Core Values. The best questions I can offer to make this easy are: What do I want influencing my choices right now? Three months fro...