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Owning a business and being the

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boss of your work in life, it means that you

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are responsible for making a lot of decisions.

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This is your main thing is something that I

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talk about a lot at Being Boss I have for years.

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And I imagine that I will continue doing so for years.

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And in fact, a couple of months, weeks ago, I

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published an episode about My Secret Weapon for

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Making Decisions in my Business.

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And today I'm going to be sharing with you my number

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one mindset for making decisions in my business as well.

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Welcome back to 10 Minutes to Being Boss. A bite-sized show, offering up tips, tools,

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and tactics for helping you do business.

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I'm Emily Thompson. And today we're talking about the mindset that I

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have adopted that helps me make a million decisions.

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So let's talk about this decision-making

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because as a business owner, You are

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responsible for making a lot of decisions.

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Some of them are small. Most of them are small, but some of them are really large.

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And there is a thing called decision fatigue

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that comes from making too many decisions.

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I myself get extra annoyed at the end of the

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day, whenever I'm asked what to eat for dinner,

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because I just made a million decisions today.

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How am I also supposed to decide what to eat for dinner.

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If this is something that you experienced

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and know that you are not alone by any means.

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However, I am here to help you with really making

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the bigger decisions in your business, because there

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are a lot of those that have to be made as well.

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So getting into the right mindset around

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these decisions is going to help you make

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them, it's going to help you do it faster.

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It's going to help you also sort of

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adopt an ease to your decision-making.

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That's going to make it easier for you to navigate

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through all of the decisions that you need to make.

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Because as you are navigating all of these decisions,

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it's likely that you're going to bump up against

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things like fraudy feelings or imposter syndrome.

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You are going to potentially become paralyzed

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by some of the decisions that you have to make.

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The way that I overcome this is by adopting

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a simple mindset that I call test and change.

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With this mindset, the idea is

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that everything is almost a game.

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I don't mean to like, make it flip it like that.

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But by adopting this test and change mindset,

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you are seeing that no decision has to be

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final or very few decisions have to be final.

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And most of our businesses, the decisions

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we make are only in the moment decisions.

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Where we can put things in place.

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We can make these decisions and we can see how they go.

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And this is the kicker here.

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You can change your mind.

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Oftentimes, when we are confronted with decisions, we

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forget that we have the power to change our mind at

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some point. And for me, the test and change mindset is one where

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I give myself the power to change my mind after

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I test, measure, and evaluate previous decisions.

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So that each decision that I make becomes

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more and more informed, more and more aligned

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with the outcomes that I want to achieve. And therefore better decisions each and every time.

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Now this has not been an easy mindset necessarily for

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me to adopt, but it is one that over the years, as

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I have practiced this for myself, I have seen that

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this really is the, the more aligned, fulfilling and

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enjoyable way of embarking on my entrepreneurial journey.

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It's how I can go at my business with this sort

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of playfulness that allows me to try things

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out, to see if they're going to work or not. And releases me from that, like paralyzing since that any

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decision I make is the last and final decision that I'll

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ever make and will totally completely define my reality for

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the foreseeable future and the test and change mindset is

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one that will allow you to go through the decisions in your

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business in a way that will give you the power and ability

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to have fun with what it is that you're doing to try things

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out, to keep you mindful as to what is happening when you

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do try things out and gives you the information that you

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need to change your mind, to adjust your trajectory, to

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make different and more informed decisions as you go along.

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So this test didn't change mindset really is my

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number one mindset for enabling me to make all of the

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decisions that I need to make in my life and work.

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It releases the pressure of all of those decisions and

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it makes them a little more temporary and easy to digest.

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So I hope that you are able to move into a more test

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and change mindset for yourself as well, to give you the

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freedom and ability to have fun in your business, to make

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temporary decisions and your life and work so that you can

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more easily and joyfully navigate your journey as well.

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Now, I'm bringing this up today for a number of reasons.

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One, because it is imperative for entrepreneurs to adopt

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a more test and change mindset to relieve you of so much

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unnecessary stress and to enable you to really navigate

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your business and your life with that additional ease.

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But also because I'm applying it here

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to the 10 Minutes to Being Boss show.

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I have enjoyed doing the show so much this year,

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but as I have tested, it is time to change.

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So we are going to be taking a little bit of a break from

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the YouTube show for 10 Minutes to Being Boss, but it will

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be coming back in a couple of weeks, better than ever.

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We have done all of the testing

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and now is time for a change.

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If you are listening to this on the 10 Minutes to

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Being Boss Podcast, know that this is likely the

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last episode of the 10 Minutes to Being Boss podcast.

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We will be bringing back these shorter episodes, but we'll

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be bringing them into the main Being Boss podcast feed.

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So if you haven't already subscribed to the main being

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boss podcast, be sure to find it wherever it is that

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you listen to podcasts and subscribe to us there.

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So give us a couple of weeks to have a little break,

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to get some things in place, and we will be back

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for the next version of 10 Minutes to Being Boss.

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And I cannot wait to see you here.

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I will say that I'm really excited about what's

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coming next for 10 minutes to being boss.

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I do have so much fun bringing

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these little tidbits together.

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And then just to give you a sneak peek, it's not

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just going to be me next time, and it's going to

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be part of a whole better being boss situation.

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And that's literally the only sort of

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sneak peeks that I'm going to give you.

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Until then be sure to follow us on our email newsletter.

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I'll be putting a link in the show description or in

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the description below is show notes or show description.

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I don't even know what these things

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are called anymore and we'll be back.

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And until next time, go make some decisions, test and

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change, have fun with it and otherwise do the work, be boss.