Yin And Yang

If Given The Option

Garth Beyer

It’s better to be up than down. Optimistic attitudes, smiles, and focusing on what works is contagious.

It’s better to be on than off. Quit plainly, if you’re on, you’re functioning. Off days are the worst.

I bet you will agree with these two, but push back on this… It’s better to be out than in.

In feels safe. It’s your comfort zone. In means you’re analyzing, you’re consuming information, you’re gathering opinions, preparing for the out, the risky, the accountable actions.

In feels good.

Yet, you wouldn’t let yourself stay down, right? Nor off, correct? So, why in?

In a world of infinite knowledge, infinite emails, infinite blogs posts to consume, we feel the need to digest more before we can regurgitate something creative and original.

I’m all for yin and yang. An off day here and there makes the on days way better, but too many off days in a row… nothing good comes from it. Nor does anything good come from always taking things in.

Today, show out some love. Do something risky. Write something new.

 

Stay Positive & Get Out There

Your Fears

Garth Beyer

The fears you have right now, the ones you can fully imagine, completely see happening, and are worried are true; the fears that are making you question someone’s true personality; the fears that are making you think of 15 different backup plans; the dialogue you’re constructing in your mind for the conversation you fear may happen; it’s urgent, but it’s not real.

Instead of prepping for the loud, the dangerous, the potential negative outcomes, perhaps…just perhaps take a look at the achievable option you’re ignoring.

 

Stay Positive & Show The Yin Some Yang

Why We’re So Indecisive And How To Make Smart Decisions

Why We’re So Indecisive And How To Make Smart Decisions

Garth Beyer

Weighing Options

When we’re indecisive, we often look at the opportunity cost, which is the benefit you forfeit when you choose one course of action over another. Think pros/cons list. This gets us nowhere.

Why so indecisive?

We’re so indecisive because we’re trying to do an opportunity cost analysis, but we’re refusing to assign a monetary value to intangible things like our time, energy, passion, happiness, effort.

The pros/cons list is flawed in our world of yin and yang. For every pro you write, you can also think of a con for it. The weight in a pros/cons list, then, cannot be determined by the number of items on each side; it must be determined by the weight of all the items added up on each side. And that requires you to assign a monetary value to each.*

To be decisive, measure the collective weight of the pros against the collective weight of the cons.

You don’t make a diet decision based on the number of things you eat vs the number of things you don’t eat. You make a diet decision based on the number on the scale.

 

Stay Positive & Weight Over Quantity

*Certainly you can use some other weight measurement. But, hey, nothing is much easier to understand than money.

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