How To Deal With Hard Decisions

There will always be times where you don’t want to make hard decisions. You’ll make excuses for why it’s ok to not do it, or why you can wait a little or even for why it’s better to not do it.

Honestly that’s what makes the difference between the top 1% and the other 99%…

They do the things they know they need to do. So many people lose opportunities because they can’t leave their comfort zones. And the same thing almost happened to me. I had just finished a course that was talking about manifestation, hypnotization and money and as soon as I finished it I got a text…

I got a text from my mentor Nic asking if I wanted to help him build a new sales team for this new company, and I took a few minutes to respond. Because I had already said on youtube that I just want to make videos this winter and focus on this 100% until the spring season comes until I can relaunch BlueShine, as well as it’s just what I wanted to do.

As well as that I didn’t wanna have to train a new team where I wouldn’t benefit a lot, or be apart of for long. But at the same time what kinda made me wanna do it was the fact that it’s hard, their sales are 99% door to door, and in the winter especially would be nuts/hard I was thinking.

After the 2nd or 3rd min I replied. And said I’m down.

I’ll talk more broad in a minute but I wanna explain the thought process behind this because I think it can really help you when it comes to just making tuff decisions in a split second and also just committing to the hard things.

I was weighing out the pros and cons. “I get to go back to sales and do commission, and since I’m pretty good at sales I can make a good amount of money which can then help with the relaunch of my business in the spring as well as I can hire an editor so I don’t need to worry about how much time I spend editing.”

The second thing is that I want to build more discipline. And whenever you just do the hard thing when you don’t wanna do you exercise your discipline muscle, because in life there’s going to be many more and harder decisions and actions that you will need to take, especially if you plan on growing and not just being stagnant for your whole life.

3rd and last reason that helped me pull the trigger was the learning I could get. Not just from helping build and scale another team but from also being around my mentor, seeing how he runs his business, how he manages and how he views certain problems and then reacts to them, etc and also the other top people working there.

• Personal gain

• Discipline increase( sometimes)

• Learning

Those were the 3 main things that helped me pull the trigger in that 3 minutes of thinking…

I bring up time as well because you need to be able to just make decisions quickly and then commit to them too. If you’re in sales and you heard this objection, you know the deal probably won’t go through.

“I need to think about it.”

More time will not help with a better decision. Please do not be those people, not just in a sales setting but in life in general. Move fast because not only do you seem more confident to others but you will feel more confident personally in your decision. When you can just commit in an instant and feel better about yourself because there’s less room for doubt.

A little bit of a side point but that is very important. Just being able to commit quickly and being confident in yourself, the decision you make will not be the doom of your life.

In my business whenever I make decisions when a mistake goes down, like a piece of equipment breaking, and there being no stores open who carry a replacement, or when we break something that belongs to a customer on a job site, or if we piss a customer off, etc.

Out side of of course making the decision fast, the main thing in my head is always, “what is the easiest way to fix this.”

Sometimes you get easier options that lead to the best outcome and sometimes you only have shit options that barely help.

Not too long ago, someone working with me left work early and didn’t do a $350 job because of the heat and I understood and felt him, so we just texted the customer and rebooked and he was ok with it. Then we rebooked a second time for some other reason. And on the third time when we were meant to clean the home this idiot took all the equipment with him to another city without telling me. So we had to rebook again and thankfully the customer was cool and understood.

The best thing I could have done and did in that moment was not blow up to risk any altercation. But I waited until he came back to our city I took the equipment for an “early job” the next day and I ended up firing the guy and giving some severance…

Me and my one friend instead did the job ourselves, apologized and gave a discount. The customer was sweet to talk with and we finished the job.

So the moral of this story is that shit happens. And that shit can sometimes just roll down a big hill of shit and grow bigger and in the moment it feels big, trust me, I know.

One thing that helps me is just zooming out. “If I can’t handle a problem like this now, I’ll never have bigger problems in the future” because the bigger the problem in your current life the bigger the places you’re going. I promise.

A quote I always tell myself that also helps with calming down or just grounding myself is: “You’re going to laugh after you solve this.”

Especially in business, there’s very few actual problems that can ruin your business. And I mean ruin as in you’re out of business. Yes sometimes you will take big hits in numbers but as long as you don’t over react, panic or even quit, your boat will stay afloat.

I’ll give a quick extra 3 things you can have in the back of your head for whenever these decisions come up and some things that help me in almost any situation.

• Don’t upset the other person, But don’t fuck yourself

I’ll always prioritize other person. Because I can always deal with myself later. But if I upset someone I’m working with, a customer or even a friend it’s a lot harder because everyone is so self focused. People struggle to see things from other’s point of views which then leads to just them messing everything up (of course depending on the person, not everyone is a pussy nerd.) So focus on win-win scenarios where they won’t be upset and where you won’t put yourself in a spot where you can’t recover from or where you do not want to be.

• Don’t lose respect or credibility

There will be times where people test you or where you’re just put in situations where it will be very easy for you to look weak in front of others and honestly never let yourself lose self respect and respect of others (like team members, employees, etc) or just let other people push you around (especially when you know they’re doing it just to damage you.)

Sometimes it’s best to just fire someone for being disrespectful, drop a customer because of how they’re acting or even just stand up for yourself and threaten a consequence (this doesn’t have to be fighting, think outside of caveman instinct.) Even just saying “don’t talk to me like that, I don’t appreciate it” and “we won’t work together if you do that.” Is better than saying/doing nothing.

• It’s ok to change your decision after it’s made

There’s been so many times where I came up with a plan and put it to action and then I think of something better or even someone on my team gives me a better idea or plan. And when you know/think that the new course of action will lead to a better result it’s best to change because a good end result easily makes up for some extra spent time switching.

Hopefully this helps with future hard decisions and choices or even helps with current ones because this is literally my entire mentality when it comes to decision making and committing.

Thank you for reading and have a good day:)

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