So you made a “bad” business decision…now what?

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Hello.

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Hello, and welcome back to the Eaves Drop on US podcast.

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I am Jessica.

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And

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I am Susan, and today

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I am excited for us to talk about a, a topic

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that I think literally affects every single business owner that.

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We know, certainly we know, I think every business owner that's out there,

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and that is the concept of sort of beating yourself up over the quote, bad

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business decisions that you have made.

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You know, the time that you decided to invest with someone and you didn't.

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Quite get what you wanted or you didn't get along with the person, or you decided

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to hire someone and it didn't work out.

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You know, whatever that dis decision may be, you know, that's what

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we're gonna dig into today because.

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I would say in the last, like two weeks alone, Susan, a combination of our clients

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and business friends have been like, oh my God, I've been, I did this thing,

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or I invested in this, or I hired this person, and it just, it didn't work out.

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And we've just seen people literally, like the self-flagellation and

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emotional, like beating themselves up is what prompted us really to do this

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episode.

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Yeah.

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I'm not a huge believer in regret.

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I think it's negative energy, number one.

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negative energy around regret is framed in the following way.

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For me, I clearly did not make the right decision.

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I should have known better.

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I could have done better.

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I must have.

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it's just wasted energy, so I tend not to swim in that regret pool for too long.

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And that's why I think you had such a, a helpful take.

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On this that I wanted for us to have a conversation about it for

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the benefit of our listeners.

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And before we get into all of that, I think we obviously wanna say at the

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beginning of this that the decisions we're talking about how we're defining

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decision are the decisions that you're making where your overall livelihood

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and business, your personal and emotional livelihood, as well as your

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business' livelihood, are not at stake.

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So, for example, we're not talking about a decision that

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would suddenly render someone.

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homeless or destitute or would not require them to have to literally

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shut down their business because they can no longer, function.

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You know?

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So what we're talking about are those decisions that

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you made where it just, yes.

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It kind, it stings and it affected your business in a way.

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And it, it certainly stung personally, but overall you are

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fine and your business is fine.

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So I think just to be clear with that.

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Yeah, I love that, clarity call.

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ultimately, folks, what we're talking about is imminent danger, right?

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we're not unpacking that clearly.

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If there's an emergency, you call what, nine one one or whatever.

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We're not, going to take that on today.

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I think we, we really wanna take you is those decisions that are not necessarily.

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Life or death, of course.

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but that, we as business leaders and senior leaders and owner operators,

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we're making a lot of darn decisions.

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And, you know, sometimes we just, you know, go back on a decision

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and we current ourselves inside out over decision not made well.

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And that's where we want to focus our conversation and

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our give and take today on.

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Yeah.

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So, and I'm sure as you're listening to this, you are

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probably a, an example comes readily to mind, you know, it was someone you said,

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you know, you either hired as the team member or it was someone you said yes to

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investing with for consulting or guidance or support, or d a sort of a service.

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Um, or it could even be like, I made the decision to do this X thing in my

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business and that was, that was a mistake.

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So I think let's start with Just where people have been coming

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to you in the last two weeks.

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They're sort of in that, the decision was made, the fallout happened, and

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now they're in this space of beating the literal crap out of themselves,

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oh my God.

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Into hamburger, quite frankly.

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Or minced meat as our European friends would say.

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you know, in the past two, I would even go out as far as three or four weeks.

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Folks are much more focused on what they're spending,

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quote unquote, or investing.

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See, there's two different mindsets there.

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Um, what they've committed to or what they've got pulled into.

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See different perspectives there.

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But all, you know, it's all about reevaluating a committed

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behavior, action, or investment.

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And I think.

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You know, the energy around.

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That's pretty interesting from my perspective as an advisor helping and

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guiding and supporting them through it, because it's one of those instances

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of, all right, first, what is to be gained by beating yourself up on this?

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W what's the point?

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You know, where are you going with this?

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How does this possibly serve you going forward?

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I think a better question, a more interesting question.

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Something that really.

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conserve you going forward is, could I learn to make a better, more informed,

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well informed decision going forward?

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What, what did I miss?

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What could I learn?

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What could I gather as a benefit of that experience?

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To me, I think that's, you know, cooler, sexier, more productive.

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what I've appreciated and why I was so excited

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to talk about this topic today is because I was in that camp of, I.

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oh my gosh, I made this horrible decision.

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I can't believe we did this.

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I can't, can you believe that it didn't work out?

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And for a variety of reasons.

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And then I would just be in this space of for days, weeks, months,

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just beating myself up over it.

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And really, I would say for me it was indulging in the emotionality of it.

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And it was, you sort of taking that question.

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Of, well, what can we learn from, from this and how can

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we make a better decision?

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Was literally like throwing, you know, the what, wait, what do you

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put in when you have a kitchen fire?

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What do you put on the fire?

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Is it baking soda?

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Baking powder?

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Baking.

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Like, it's like throwing that onto the emotional fire and

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being like, well, wait a second.

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You feels good and indulgent to be in this emotional space, you know?

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And how can you instead, as a business owner, Use that information as intel.

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that's what it is, right?

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Because, um, we often use these phrases in small business as, you

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know, continual process improvement, that's really sexy, right?

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all that type of stuff.

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This is one of those, you know, to be an evolving learning,

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intuitive small business.

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We have to be introspective, but with sobriety, not emotionality.

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Now, I'm not suggesting become stoic in this, right?

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We can have emotion.

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I'm just suggesting not to be indulgent and wallow in the damn thing.

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Right?

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There is a difference and because at that point now we're throwing good.

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Money at a very bad investment.

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The money, time, time is dying.

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I've always said this, and you know, we can go in over that at some other point.

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But the, the, you know, the point comes back to how do you

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recover from an a bad decision?

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do you want to wallow in the emotionality of it or do you wanna,

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come at it soberly and ask, okay, what is that lesson as you, pointed out?

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That to me is a more productive use of time.

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And what I love about our clients and our small business community

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right now is that there's more, attention being given to investment.

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There's more attention being given to, what are we going to do?

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that was not in play.

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As far as back as January, December or November 22, people were just doing.

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So there is a, a shift, and I think that's a really interesting thing to

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be able to share with our listeners.

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That if you find yourself in that space of, gosh, I should have made a better

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decision, I could have done this, but just, you know, take two steps back, take

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a deep breath and ask where's the lesson?

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And I

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can ask you something though.

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All right?

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Yeah, sure.

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Be honest with me because, you know, for, for those listening who are like,

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okay, so that sounds easy to do, right?

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Just think about the lesson, not, okay.

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So I was, I was just curious, you know, cuz you were saying you don't, you don't

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wanna be totally stoic about it, but how have you sort of balanced that, that

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feeling of the, the emotionality with the sobriety of what can I learn from this?

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Because earlier this year there was a moment where we had made a

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frustrating business decision, right?

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And, and I say, I say frustrating because again, it did not impact

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the overall business's wellbeing.

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It did not cause us to be in a place where we were in financial, you know, strain.

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But it did staying.

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It, did not turn out the way we wanted it to turn out.

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And so, I'm just curious, you know, cuz you, I remember there was a moment where

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you were sort of emotional about it, but how did you pull yourself out of that?

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Oh, let's be clear.

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I was pissed off.

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Mm-hmm.

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I mean, can we just be real about this?

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the emotion was anger betrayal, angery at myself that I didn't, didn't

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see the warning signs, you know?

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I fell in love with the potential and damn it.

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That is one of the biggest lessons as business owner leaders, decision makers,

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the potential always bites us in the ass.

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Right?

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Especially, you know, folks that are, you know, entrepreneurs.

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We love potential.

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So, you know, your question was, how did I pull myself out

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of that potential spin out?

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There were always three questions I ask always.

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What worked.

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So I start listing out what worked, what didn't work, and, and those two questions.

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Now, in all sincerity, there's emotionality and there's

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sobriety in there too, right?

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but I put 'em on paper and then I just look at it, okay.

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Could I, would I have made a different decision if it was today, and the reality

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is I would've made the same damn decision and so, I had to just suck it out.

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I'm like, yeah, you know what?

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That happens.

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Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, and sometimes.

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you win more than you lose.

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And that's the game, right?

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We wanna win more than we lose in our decisions.

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And in that instance, I'm being really honest, that's how I,

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pulled myself out of the spin out.

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So then I had to literally say, To the folks that we had this working on.

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I literally had to say, love you, kisses, hugs we're done.

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And that is perhaps one of the more difficult things to say, but I had to

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do it because it just wasn't working.

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I.

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It wasn't working out for our betterment.

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And I think also for theirs, you know, and sometimes as decision makers, we don't

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always get to make the fun decisions.

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Sometimes we have to be able to say, this isn't gonna work.

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Love you, kisses, hugs.

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I honestly wish you the best, but we're gonna stop.

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I think a few things that, that, I'm thinking of with that

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specific instance is, we, at the time when we made the decision, we had

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the, the information in front of us.

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Yes.

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You know, it, we, we made the best decision at the time that we could have.

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And I think, uh, you know, on the other side of it, after what happened happened,

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I looked back on it and I was like, why am I so an, like, why was I so angry?

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And I was like, I'm more angry with myself.

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Because I think, again, there was the potential of this I didn't ask, I knew

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I should have asked this question and I know the should have, like people

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listening don't come at me with it.

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Like, don't shoot on yourself.

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But there was that like, wow, these are certain questions that I know.

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That I should consistently ask.

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And so we just, I think we used that and said, okay, so yeah, that sucked.

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It was annoying.

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Whatever, you know, we'll, we, we need to move on and use this to

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inform our decisions going forward.

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And so I.

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If it's a matter of, in this specific case, if it's a matter of hiring,

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you know, someone to support us in some capacity, well we kind of

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know what questions we need to ask this person upfront going forward.

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And so I think that's, you know, I was thinking of someone who just

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recently, messaged us and said, you know, I've been beating myself up over

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this decision I made for over a year.

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And I think, my God, what you said about time is so true.

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It's like, can we use that energy and harness that?

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For more productive things in our business and more importantly, some

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of the most successful business owners that we've been around.

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wonder if there's the perception, Susan, that when people beat themselves

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up over decisions, is it because we think that successful business

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owners don't make bad decisions?

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Do we get into that space of like, oh, I'm a bad business owner because I made

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this this decision and it didn't work out.

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Or there's, do you, do you know what I'm saying?

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I wonder if people are sort of internalizing it that way.

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I think inexperienced ones do.

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I think no, I don't think I actually, I'm gonna say I believe this, that,

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look, no one ever gets up from a knockout, ever without understanding.

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When they get up off the floor, they're wiser and stronger for getting up.

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can we acknowledge that?

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So when you are in the privileged position of being a business owner and a

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leader, decision making is understood to be part of the role and responsibility

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of that particular individual?

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No.

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Getting around it so you learn right quick, you're not the hero of every day.

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There are times you're gonna make not so great decisions, so you have to

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recognize it's not a personal failing.

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It's just, you know what this is, part of getting through it

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and advancing, and evolving.

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I think though when business owners are junior, you know, newbies if

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you will, respectfully, I don't say that disrespectfully to you.

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New business owners and leaders, we all had to be there.

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I am saying that you don't necessarily have muscle memory yet on how to recover.

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From a bad decision because it's like life.

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You will make bad decisions.

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You will trip, you will fall.

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You don't lay flat.

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If you are a leader, you don't lay flat.

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You get up and you dust yourself off and you either, you're raw

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and you have an open wound, eventually it's gonna scab over.

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You'll recover, It's like the old question, should I worry?

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And the reply usually is, would it help?

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And it doesn't.

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It doesn't, So, you gotta remember to give yourself some grace

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and ease through this process.

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Well, and I think

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too, Through.

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I think the, just the way you, you've mentored me around this, which

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is, you know, you use it as intel.

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Yeah.

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You, it stings for a moment, but use it to propel the business forward.

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And I think two things have sort of happened because I wouldn't

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say we make bad decisions all the time, but it happens and it's gonna

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happen to, to you listening to this.

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you can do what you can and you can make as much an informed choice as possible.

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But in the end, not all of them are going to be the right one or the one

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that's going to work out the best.

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And I think looking back on some of the decisions that we've made that haven't

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worked out the way we wanted them to, one, I think it's helped just in terms of.

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Better questions to ask ways to, make the decision itself.

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And two, I also think that, at least in the line of work that we do, it

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has made us much more dynamic coaches and consultants because then you're

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speaking from experience of like, well, we tried this and this is what happened,

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this was our experience with it.

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Or if I did it again, I would've done this differently.

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And so you just don't know until you go

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through it.

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You gotta get through the fire of it.

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And, you know, there's also, I remember, uh, listening to a

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presentation and he actually, what was the author of Stoicism right now?

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Who's that Fella.

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Ryan Holliday, very, very well known.

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He's the author of the Daily Stoic and talks about stoicism on social media.

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So yeah, we saw him at.

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Funnel hacking live.

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Yeah, baby.

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And that was a couple years ago.

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Yeah.

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out of the whole presentation, the one thing that this always happens

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to me, I usually walk away with one or two nuggets per a presentation,

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and he gave a hell of a presentation.

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So if you ever have a chance to see him do it, I highly recommend it.

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But here's the thing I took away from that presentation

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was he made the comment of AI.

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AI was really amazing that we can take as humans as a lesson from

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it is its decision making model.

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It doesn't emote now I don't wanna say that you should

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make decisions emotion free.

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Let's not be extreme here.

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Um, you know, we're people, we are emotion.

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That's what makes us fabulously human.

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But we can minimize the fog of emotion in our decision making.

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And AI as he went on in his presentation, just makes a mistake and

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compute it for the next correction.

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That's it.

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It's just, oh, that didn't work.

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Okay, next.

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Oh, it didn't work.

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Great.

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Okay, next.

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And what do you mean that say, right?

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Because there's no emotion, right?

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There's no, judgment on it, good or bad, healthy, sad.

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It just, it doesn't do any of that.

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So how did I take that back to my business?

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Working with my clients was how can we turn down the emotion

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in this particular decision?

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If you had to do it all over again, let's look at the facts

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that were available to you.

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In that moment when you made that decision to do it or not,

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and use that as a teaching tool.

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So that's all I do.

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I I really, honestly, that's, I I have to give him the credit for

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helping me with that one they all have better decision making abilities.

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Yeah.

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I think it's the striking a balance between Absolutely.

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Okay.

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You know what?

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Wasn't fun, not happy that it went that way, but I'm not

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going to lose sleep over this.

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I'm not going to spend time thinking, overthinking, you know,

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imagining different scenarios and just think wallowing in

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it for days, weeks, or months.

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You know?

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That's just, it's not productive.

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A for the business and more importantly for your own

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mental and emotional wellbeing.

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can you talk about

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that, your emotional and long-term wellbeing?

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Oh my gosh, because I

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think this was my personal, like specifically for me, but

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I would think about it as, as I was lying down in bed at night and like playing

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it over and over in my mind of like, oh, I would've done this differently.

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Or, oh my gosh, I can't believe this happened and that affects sleep.

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Oh my, you're okay, so you're not sleeping.

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This is what happened.

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You know, so it, it creates this very unproductive.

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Space for it did for me anyway.

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And I think I've said this to you so many times, Susan, if I'm not careful, I can

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very easily slide into all or nothing.

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and I can just be like, you know, in the indulgent space that was for me.

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Right.

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I'm not saying everybody is indulging in their emotions, that was just for me.

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Mm-hmm.

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And.

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It's the balancing of, okay, yes, acknowledge it, acknowledge the emotion,

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but then, okay, so we've gotta move on.

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Right?

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I cannot put my body and mental wellbeing through this and the business.

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I've gotta move on.

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I love all of that insight and because I love how you connected too,

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the renson repeat of that, memory loop.

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And how that impacts your body and your overall wellbeing.

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Folks, there's not enough time in the day to overemphasize how important

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that and that alone is because this is a, a cliche and I'm gonna use it.

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This is a marathon.

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This is not a sprint.

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This is really a marathon.

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So it's about conditioning your mindset and your body because you

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have to be able to take the hits you know, you gotta get back up.

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This is not about those.

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And, you know, finally, I would probably put a real emphasis on this.

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Recently I shared with a client who was just, an amazing

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businesswoman, number one.

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Truly, truly an amazing businesswoman, very successful business.

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you know, one of the things you can expect as you scale and grow your business,

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the punches are gonna feel harder.

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You know, at first they're like little pillow swipes.

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You know, you just got swed in the head by a pillow.

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you know, as you get bigger in this business, it's, it goes

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right to the the bread basket.

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You know, the gut, you get a gut shot.

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Really, cuz I can tell you that first year of business,

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everything felt like a gut punch.

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So I don't know what kind, maybe for some people, I don't know.

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Here we go.

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You know it.

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This is why we do this, you know.

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You have that.

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And I didn't, I mean, Tamir

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was like, oh my gosh.

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Everything I did in the, in the very beginning it was like this, the, the

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intensity the seriousness of it all.

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So I would say I've, I've experienced, although, you know, to be fair,

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I think, I've certainly eased and they don't feel, you know, yeah.

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Anyway.

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Yeah.

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Well, here's what I encouraged her with and I love that you shared that.

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So thank you.

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That's one of those things.

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See folks, this is, why we have this dynamic to me.

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I was like, oh, did you say something?

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Oh, oh.

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You know, but as we grew, oh, okay.

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That I, I felt that hit.

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so I shared with her, the following quote, there is no problem outside of you that is

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superior to the power that is within you.

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I'll repeat it because that's a repeater.

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There is no problem outside of you that is superior to the power that is within you.

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that was big because you learn how to embrace a bad decision, a flawed decision.

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A Mar decision.

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A setback, because why?

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If you understand how to capitalize and leverage a setback, if you will, you

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just got one of the true keys to success.

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That is a key of success if you can understand how to leverage a loss.

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Into a win to a lesson to what I will never do again or

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what can I share with others?

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Because sharing of knowledge is one of the biggest blessings you can pass on.

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Right.

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And

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I'd also add to, it's also the appreciation

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of if I made a quote unquote bad decision, it's not a reflection of.

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Who I am as a person and you know, my, how successful I'm going to be in business.

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I think it's, it's the depersonalization of that.

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And I think of some of the, the clients we have who have been in business, they're

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certainly entrepreneurial to the bone and the way that they approach mistakes

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or what we're saying with bad decisions.

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there isn't the emotionality.

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It's like, oh, that sucked.

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All right, well, I'm not gonna do that again.

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that's it.

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And we're moving on.

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Pick up your bags, people, let's go.

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Yeah.

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And that's a life lesson.

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I mean, truly, see, this is why I love the craft of small business, because it, it is

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both a personal and professional lesson.

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If you can grab this and let it inform you in how you make what work, what didn't.

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What lesson can I glean out of this to give, you know, go forward.

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Sometimes these lessons too, by the way, this is a popular follow

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up to me, from our clients.

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What I'm teaching them.

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This is, well, what do I do with this lesson?

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Well, you have to ask a critical question at this point.

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Does this inform our business or distract?

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Sometimes it's a one off and you can say, no, you know what,

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we're not doing that again folks.

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Or if we do it again, this is how we're going to approach it so we

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can mitigate risk or harm that this decision can impact us on.

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Does that make sense?

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Mm, totally.

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We, we have to kind of, be intuitively curious.

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Childlike in our curiosity about it, and when we detach and get childlike

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with the curiosity around this, the emotionality falls right away.

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It definitely falls off of it, at least in my experience.

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Well, and I

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think two was something that, you know, I think the two of us,

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you know, have each other to sort of talk through, through that with, right?

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Like, I think sometimes, you know, in the, in the lonely space that

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is business ownership, you know, you can get into your own head.

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This would be me, right?

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I'd be in my own space thinking and overthinking and imagining, and

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you know, all of those unhelpful.

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Pieces in on my own.

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And I think having the, the ability to verbalize it out loud

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with someone is, is helpful too.

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So I think again, it just, you know, has been

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helpful.

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thank you and I mean that, hon.

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Thank you for bringing that out for our listeners and for each other as

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a reminder of this is yet one more time, we can help others recognize.

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You can't do this stuff in a vacuum.

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You really cannot.

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I mean, to do so is at your own peril.

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Right.

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And you know, ultimately I think what we're both stressing to our

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kind listeners is, whenever you, a not so terrific decision, if you can

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make that decision that it wasn't.

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Honestly a productive call.

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You're a wiser person because you made that.

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Do you follow?

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If you could judge it as not such a wise decision right there and then in

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that very moment, you are a wiser, more informed individual decision maker, I

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love it.

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So as you are thinking on this episode and thinking about maybe there's a

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recent decision, and I use bad, I'm using it in a broad sense because

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that's how we usually label these things, but you're thinking of a bad,

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not so great, less than terrific kind of decision that you've made recently.

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Hopefully you can take one or two tips from this and a ease up on yourself.

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And b, harness this to propel your business forward.

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Because as soon as you sort of see yourself through that emotional fog,

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we promise that the, the lesson, the silver lining, the intel that you

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can use to move forward is there.

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So, Susan, anything else you wanna say before we let them

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go?

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Just, trusting your intuition.

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Be stronger and wiser and, and go gently, allow that wisdom to come to you.

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And I hope you feel a good hug after this.

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Yeah.

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All right.

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Well, thank you so much for tuning in to

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another one of our episodes.