 Seven ways to become a better decision maker. By the end of this video, you're gonna know the seven ways to become a better decision maker. As a bonus, you're gonna be better at every decision that you make. And we're starting right now. Hey, if you're new to my channel, my name's JR Fisher. I've been selling online since 2009, right? Selling physical products and digital products. We've sold millions of dollars worth of products and I learned something along the way and I share them with you on this channel so you can start, run, and grow your online business. Now, if you've had a problem with making decisions, put that in the comments below. Tell me why you've had the problem and what kind of problems that cause for you. If you're really good at decision making, by all means, share with us what you do in the comments below so you can help other people out. Now, let's get started with the seven ways to become a better decision maker. As a bonus, at the end of this video, I have a $97 e-commerce course, but since you watch this video, you can have it absolutely free. So don't forget to grab that at the end of the video. Now, one thing I've noticed, and you may have noticed this too, is that most people that you really analyze are totally illogical about their decision making process. I mean, you watch them and it just makes no sense what they're doing. They almost seem irrational in their process and it makes you wonder why are they doing what they do? So let's take a look at that first. Now, if you're watching this video, obviously you wanna know how to make better decisions and that's exactly what you're gonna learn to do with these seven simple steps. Anybody can do this. At the decision making point, we all wanna make the right decision. I mean, of course we do, right? So at decision time, the best thing you can do is to make the right decision. Well, that's easier said than done sometimes, but the second best thing you can do is to make the wrong decision and the worst thing you can do is make no decision at all. And I didn't say that, Theodore Roosevelt did. And it's totally true. Making no decision at all is in itself making a decision. It's making a decision not to act and that's certainly not what we want. So what do we do? As I get older, I realize that there is a lot more that goes into decision making than just making a decision. Now, we all have this thing called an emotional component that's mixed into the decision making process. It's not just cut and dry. Now, the truth is that some of us don't want to own is that where you are now is really based on every decision you've made in your life up until now. So these decisions will affect your life because understand where you are right now is based on all of the decisions you've made up to this point. And the truth is, a lot of people don't wanna realize that. They don't wanna say, well, my situation is based on the decisions I made and the things I did, but in effect, it really is. Okay, I'm gonna reveal something to you. Are you ready? The real reason I made this video is for selfish reasons. I wanna become a better human being, but I also wanna get more out of life and the only way to do that is make better and better decisions. Now, I'll be very honest with you. In the past, well, I've made some bad decisions and maybe you have too, but those decisions were things I made based on that point in my life. And hopefully I don't make those bad decisions anymore. I don't wanna beat myself up over old decisions and you shouldn't either and here's why. There's nothing you can do about it. You're stuck with your old decisions, but they don't have to form your future. You can change and you can become anything you want for the rest of your life based on the decisions you make from this point forward. First off, think about this. You have to make important decisions all the time. You decide on what job you're gonna take or even what job you applied for, the place you're gonna live, whether you're gonna start a business. If you're religious, if you're gonna raise your children in that religion, there are so many life decisions that all of us have to make on a daily basis. So let's get into all the steps first. Number one step is don't make decisions after lunch. What? It's crazy. No, you shouldn't make any big decisions after lunch. Daniel Pink wrote in his book called, When, and I highly recommend it. I'll put a link in the description. He explains that your emotional energy goes up and down throughout the day. And at the lowest point is usually about seven hours after you get out of bed. So that's gonna put you after lunch sometime in the afternoon. So he theorizes that you're gonna make the worst decisions at that point of day than any other time of day. So you may wanna consider making your really important decisions first thing in the morning when you're actually at your sharpest. And some people will argue, well, I'm not sharp at all in the morning, but actually your mind is gonna be clearer then and it will be at any point during the day. Number two is be humble. Now, don't assume that you have all the answers. This can really hinder your decision-making process. You're gonna prevent yourself to be open to other possibilities that may be a better answer to your decision-making process. In digital marketing, I can't count how many times I learned a new process or way of doing things from somebody that was half my age. The old way of thinking was that, you know, the older you are, the more life experiences you have and you're gonna be more knowledgeable. But with technology and the way things are nowadays, that's just not the case anymore. Just because you've been around a long time doesn't mean that you know a lot and you really have to keep an open mind. So you've gotta be humble and realize that somebody younger than you or different sex than you or a different nationality than you, that they could really help you out. But you have to have that open mind to be able to use that and make better decisions. Number three is consider default. What do I mean by that? What's consider default? Well, whether you make a decision or choose to not decide something will probably happen. That's why you're in this decision dilemma right now. Make part of your decision process understanding that something will happen and since that something will happen, reason through what that something is and that's gonna help you make your decision much quicker and much better. Knowing the outcome may be uncomfortable may make you make the right decision. So that decision that you're faced with right now is because something's going on or will happen and since it will happen, you definitely wanna go ahead and make that decision. Number four is buy some time, but not too much time. And what I mean by that is if we feel pressured into making a decision right away, we can often miss out on considering all the possibilities that may help us make a better decision. Now, remember I said don't take too much time. It's okay to say today is Wednesday and X will happen and I don't want it to by Saturday. So I have to give myself until maybe Thursday at the very latest Friday morning to decide if I should implement this particular thing. Now, what is not okay is to tell yourself that you will probably come up with a decision soon and you'll think about it later. That's not giving yourself more time. That's just procrastinating. So make sure you put a time limit on this adding more time to your decision if you have it available. We don't always have that luxury, but if you do, you certainly wanna give yourself some more time to consider all the possibilities. Number five, do some research to help make a better decision. Now, getting more information can be very helpful. Now you don't wanna study the problem for years obviously, but if you can consult with somebody you respect who's gone through the same things as you, that can be very helpful. I had a friend of mine call me the other day about one of her clients. It was one of her biggest clients and she was really concerned because he had changed the parameters of the relationship and wanted her to do different things on different time schedules and she wanted to know the right thing to tell him. And when I looked at the situation, I thought to myself, well, it's not him that needs to change. It's gonna need to be her because if he's changing all these things, he obviously doesn't need or want her to do this particular job anymore and she needs to come up with her own way to generate income. She's very good at what she does and she knows how to help other businesses. She could either go get new clients and run into the situation again or she can come out with her own products and actually sell those products, those educational products on building funnels and sales pages which she knows very well to other people out there. But that's a painful decision for her to make because that would mean that she's gonna actually have to do a whole lot more work to come up with her own items to sell as opposed to just helping other people market their product. So sometimes when we're not making a decision, we actually know what the right thing is to do but we need to consult with somebody else so they just look at you and say, no, you need to do this. This is your real problem. And that's basically what I told her. Number six, you wanna apply the rule of 10s. Now what's the rule of 10s? What would things look like in 10 minutes if you did not make this decision? Would it have an effect? Would it do anything to your life? In most cases, 10 minutes doesn't matter. But what would happen in 10 hours? What would happen in 10 weeks? What would happen in 10 years if you didn't make the right decision? And you can take that down to some really simple things like going to the gym. If I don't go to the gym in the next 10 minutes, nothing's gonna happen. And heck, if I do or don't go to the gym over the next 10 days, nothing's probably gonna happen. Now over the next 10 weeks, I'm probably gonna see some effects. And certainly over 10 years, I will see huge effects if I don't go to the gym. I know these things are gonna happen. I know the gym's important, but a lot of times we go, well, in the next 10 minutes, it's not gonna matter. In the next 10 days, it's not gonna matter. But you need to kinda carry that out and see what effect it's gonna have on your life. And when you do that, you're gonna say, well, yeah, maybe I should go to the gym because 10 years from now, I could be very sickly and I could look really poorly if I don't go get exercise today that doesn't seem like it matters that much today. But over a period of time, by applying the 10s rule, it makes a huge difference. Number seven in the final step is turn your brain on. Now you say, well, my brain's always on. Even when I'm sleeping, my brain's on. It is always on, but it's not the part of your brain that you need to have turned on. The one part that always seems to take over on your brain is the fight or flight syndrome. So anytime your body is faced with something that's gonna be uncomfortable or your mind's faced with something that's gonna be uncomfortable, you're gonna want to flee from it. You're gonna wanna get away from it. An example would be that gym thing we were just talking about. You may say, well, yeah, I know I should go to the gym, but, and then your brain starts thinking, oh, that's gonna be uncomfortable. Oh, you're gonna get out of breath and you're not gonna feel good. You should stay on this couch and you should eat those cookies because they're making you feel great right now. They really do make you feel good. When in fact, that's the fight or flight syndrome. What we need to do is flip that and look and say, is this real thoughts I'm having? Are these things really real? Because in the long run, yeah, it feels good to sit on the couch and not exercise and do all those things, but in the long run, what will you feel like in 10 years? That's gonna be a whole lot more painful. So I reason that if you go through a short period of pain, maybe you wanna write a book and you say, oh my God, right? That's so difficult, it's so much work and I wanna have to edit and it's gonna take me days and weeks and months. And the fact is it wouldn't take you that long, but even if it did, days, weeks and months are gonna pass anyhow. And if you did do that thing, if you did write that book, if you did write that blog, if you did try to sell products online, if you did start that business, it could have a huge effect on the rest of your life when being comfortable and doing nothing is that fight or flight thing and you're just trying to avoid pain and it's gonna cause you more pain in the long run. Look, we all want the right outcome of great decisions. We all wanna be healthy. We all wanna look good, but it takes the decision of not ordering pizza in the middle of the night and it takes the decision of going to the gym the next day to really be healthy. All those little things that make us feel good in the moment, often we regret much later. Now, after getting up in the morning and heading to the gym, when you'd rather stay in bed, it may be painful, but if you do that over a period of months and years, you're gonna be in a much better position than if you ordered pizza late at night. Now, I ordered a pizza late at night the other night and it was a bad decision and I knew it, but because I made that bad decision, doesn't mean I should quit going to the gym and doesn't mean I should order a pizza every night. One bad decision does not ruin your entire future. We're not always gonna make these perfect decisions and this video was made just to help you make better decisions and realize what decisions you should be making and which ones you shouldn't be making. Sometimes the decision not to do something can be the right decision. Once again, you are totally a product of your past decisions. Now, that doesn't mean that you should dwell on the fact that you may have made some bad decisions, but do understand that you will also be the product of all the decisions you make from this point forward to the next 10 years or 20 years or 30 years. So do make the right decisions. Don't dwell on things you've done in the past. It doesn't matter. You can't change them. I've seen people try to dwell on those things and change the past and I've never known anybody to change the past before no matter how hard they try. Now, I'm gonna ask you to make the right decision and I can promise you it's the right decision. Hit that subscribe button down there, right? Hit the bell notification so that I can tell you every time a video comes available. YouTube will wake you up and say, hey, JR's got a new video. Join the Fisher family. Hit that subscribe button right down there. 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