Decision Ease

Not knowing what you want, what to do, or even  who you are   is probably one of the worst feelings on the planet. And when you're wrestling with "clarity questions," it kinda doesn't matter if they seem SUPER HUGE or  annoyingly small... 'Cause the truth is, EVERY decision is harder when you walk around your life thinking   I don't know. I don't know  can start to fl...

What even IS a decision? 🤔 Before you dismiss this as a silly question, I'd love for you to try answering it.  What are you  doing when you "decide" something? What happens in that moment? Turns out, this answer makes a big difference in how you treat your decisions! My job is to help people  hear themselves clearly  about what they want, and  set themselves up  to T...

Ok I admit it. I'm an efficiency   enthusiast . 🤩 I love when things work well and no time's wasted. (You? SAMESIES??) But I used to be addicted to productivity. Fixated on getting  more   done,  faster ...just for the sake of (...um...the same brainwashing we all got, not much more). Today, my deep & passionate love for efficiency 😉 has a much calmer quality to it....

You can feel confidently, powerfully decisive allllll day long 🤩 as long as you think you have OPTIONS. So what happens when you inevitably find yourself stuck in a situation where you see NO options? 😐 ...Or the options you do see are Crappy Version A and Crappy Version B? 🤔 You devour today's episode and restore your full sense of agency, of course! The "L" in the 6 Principles of SIMPLE Decis...

What to we REALLY want? Well, it depends on what level you look. At the deepest level, we want to make powerful, authentic, self-honoring choices that help us BE who we wanna be.  But at the surface, we often simply want to make choices that help us avoid discomfort. Our default "wants" (aka our habitualized instincts, which we're not consciously choosing) can be to NOT  rock the bo...

Who else's brain gets hung up on Step 36 when you're on Step 2! 🙋‍♀️ Today we're talkin' about what used to be my #1 Problem   and how I got   outta  that habit for good. Stressing about NON-Makeable Decisions used to keep me from seeing any option in front of me. 😣 It made decisions seem   impossible , super high stakes, and better to just put off 'til "I had more answe...

"Intentional decision making" is all well & good, but what if you're STRESSED and you have a decision to make? Our tendency, as super-hard-on-ourselves semi-perfectionists, can be to  push through   the stress or  collapse   into it completely. And neither scenario sets us up for our most powerful, authentic thinking. Learning how to make decisions that serve me AND be...

Have you ever had a decision to make (big OR small) that your brain   refuses   to concentrate on?  You start out thinking about this wedding invite you just got, and all of a sudden every unknown about the year ahead seems urgent, and you find yourself trying to make all 1900 decisions at once. Or you start with next week's presentation, and ten minutes later, you have 7 tabs open...

Do you love a LIST as much as I do? Then YAY this episode is going to light you up. To solve overthinking, we have to make it SIMPLE. Otherwise, it's too big and vague a problem, which makes it impossible to solve.  So to SIMPLIFY your decisions and make this a  problem of the past , I'm offering you a handy dandy checklist: The 6 Principles of Simple Decisions. Ready for the super helpf...

The #1 problem I get asked to help solve is answering this question: "How do I know I'm making the right choice?" This question can cause so much anxiety - and it can keep you from making a decision (or trusting it, if you do make one) for YEARS. So we're answering the question once and for all, so the next time it comes up, you have a helpful answer. One that guides you to a decision you can trus...

The gap between Ideas, Decisions and Actions is where we Overthinkers tend to hang out and get stuck. Believe me, if this were a nice place to visit, I wouldn't have anything against it. But in the gap, we're experience a ton of fear, which we're not addressing head-on, so the whole experience there is pretty stressful and unproductive.  Luckily, the more aware you are of when you're goin' in...

Becoming an EX-Overthinker sounds so lovely...But how do we fit that into our already jam-packed schedules?  The good news I want to offer you today   (read: shout from the rooftops)   is that   you ALREADY possess the 3 Main Skills   you need to feel total badassery when it comes to decision making. So all we need to do from here is highlight how you're already GOOD at th...

How do you know you're making the right decision? That's the exact question we'll answer on this podcast.  Hi, I'm Kirsten! I'm the Decision Coach for Overthinkers. I've been coaching big-brained high-achievers for years, helping them stop living in fear of regret, option paralysis and the dreaded FOPO (fear of people's opinions!).  And now I'm here to help YOU get out of Overthinking ag...