Mastery Mondays
Choices & Decisions
Decisions Under Pressure
Some of the best advice I’ve ever heard is this: when you feel like you have no choice, you will inevitably make the wrong decision.
Decisions made under immense pressure can often feel like we are robbed of choice.
We tell ourselves this narrative that the only option is .
But 99% of the time, that is false. There are usually multiple options - but some of them have difficult consequences that make us feel like we have no choice. (Or it isn’t what we want to do)
Think about the last time you were making a difficult decision under pressure. Did you make a good decision? Were you able to objectively look at all the options? Or did you feel like there was only one decision to make?
In the last 2 years, the housing market has gone crazy where I live (it’s gone crazy everywhere!)
My husband and I were feeling desperate to buy into the market. The frenzy drove us to believe that we had no choice but to bid tens of thousands of dollars over asking price (even hundreds of thousands over).
We were feeling like we had no choice. We wanted to get into the market, and therefore we believed that we had very little choice.
That’s when I was reminded of that advice - if you feel like you have no choice, you will inevitable make the wrong decision.
We had been bidding on houses that we didn’t even like, all because we felt like we had no choice.
But the truth is, we had plenty of choices. We could choose to wait until the market slowed down, we could rent for the time being, we could offer what we felt was reasonable for a property, we could wait until a property came available that we actually liked and wanted…we had plenty of choices. We had just convinced ourselves that we were pigeon holed.
Thankfully for us, that advice clicked. We decided to hold off on making a housing decision under pressure where we felt like we had no choice.
Because the truth is, we always have choices - even when we have to make decisions under pressure.