This is optimal living daily episode eleven. Oh one making the biggest Decisions by tying in of Tainan.com. And I'm just a moloch the guy that reads to you every single day of the year including weekends and holidays to help you optimize your life taste post being from Tainan before we get to it. I'll be getting my vitamins and supplements from care of it's a monthly subscription vitamin service that separates out your vitamins daily into individual packets and personally tailored to your exact needs. And ends up costing like 20% less compared to similar Brands and for 25% off your first month of personalized care of vitamins. Just visit take care of.com and enter the promo code Old the sokoto LD for 25% off your first month at take care of.com. I'll tell you more about how that works after the reading. So for now, let's get to today's post as we optimize your life. Making the biggest Decisions by tying in of tine and.com. I wanted to write a post about making the biggest decisions before doing so I thought I'd jot down some of mine and look for commonalities. What surprised me most was how few decisions of this magnitude there were depending on where I set the bar. I've probably only made 10 huge decisions in my entire life. I made the first about 20 years ago. So I make one every two years here are some of what I consider to be the biggest decisions dropping out of school deciding to travel around the world for an extended period Of time moving to Las Vegas as well as other moves living in an RV focusing entirely on pick up for one or two years and getting married is interesting to realize how few there were specially while keeping in mind the enormous changes. They've made in my life. In other words. They are even higher leverage than it subconsciously consider them to be you may be surprised at some things that aren't on that list. I consider my group real estate purchases to be relatively small decisions while they've had a big impact. None of them were huge Investments or difficult to decide. I don't count starting or stopping various businesses because I just assumed that if I didn't start Cruise sheet, for example, I would have started something else and those decisions are also easy. I'm not actually married yet so we can discount that one for the sake of discussion. If you're familiar with my work though. You probably know about the others. They were all pivotal points in my life that radically changed my results it is of course impossible to know if any of Them were the right decisions to me. They feel like they are because I'm a hundred percent satisfied with my life and all of them were major contributors, but perhaps if I didn't travel something much better would have happened during that time hard to imagine but I would have never imagined my life as it is. Anyway, the thing is this is always how these decisions are. You never know whether you made the right ones more not it's important to be comfortable with that because if you aren't then you'll be scared to make the decisions big decisions can be scary. Re and that's how they're sometimes supposed to be part of the skill and making these decisions is being comfortable with that discomfort and having faith in yourself to make the best of them the biggest mistake. I see people make with big decisions ironically is thinking too much about them around half of mine were time-sensitive and would have been more difficult or impossible. If I deliberated too long in the same way that debt insidiously siphons money out of your bank account without you really noticing excessive deliberating siphons away your Cheers, I think we all know plenty of people who stay at a job or in a relationship for years too long or waited years to start a project or make a move. They should have done years ago. If you look at my list, I literally did not take more than a day to think about any of the big decisions. I made I always had in the back of my head that I would probably drop out someday, but I did it on the same day that I seriously considered it for the first time. I bought my place in Vegas the same day. I found it even without seeing it within 15 minutes of seeing a spot open up in the project Hollywood pick up house. I committed to move the first time my fiancé and I talked about getting married in the near future. We set a date three months out. I tried very hard to come up with a big decision that I considered to have worked out poorly. I can't think of any the closest I can come up with are a few Investments I've made but overall my investments have drastically outpaced the market and as an ex-pro Gambler, I knows the nature of the game that not every bet will pay off I can however think of Is where I made a mistake by not making a decision fast enough there were relationships that I knew should end but I put off by months there are several businesses. I should have started early more ended more quickly. This isn't so much about me as much as it is about the nature of these sorts of decisions with the right attitude and a little bit of grit. I think that very few of what we see is biggest decisions actually end up poorly in most cases these decisions fit the mold of having very large potential upsides and very small. Potential downsides we're often more scared of the uncertainty of the situation than we are with the actual worst case scenario. For example, it might be scary to drop everything and travel around the world. But at the end of the day, you can always fly back if it turns out it's not for you you've paid for a plane ticket or two more than you should have if it is for you then maybe you've changed your whole life focusing on pick up was the one from my list. I had perhaps the biggest potential downside if it didn't work. I would have given up a year or two of Productivity and I would have felt like an idiot which is probably the more visceral and emotional downside. The upside was enormous though while some alternative paths are unclear. I'm completely certain that I would not be in as good a relationship with as excellent of a girl as I am. Now. I simply didn't have the skills to find that person. Let alone keeper a fundamental bargain in life is the trading of discomfort for gain. We all do it and the most successful among us do it a lot. The asymmetry of big decisions having huge tangible potential upsides versus moderate fear-based emotional downsides. It's important to build a habit and skill of taking the less comfortable path eventually get to the point where you are conditioned to enjoy the discomfort because you associate it with an eventual reward. This doesn't happen quickly, but it does happen and when it does you make even faster progress because these biggest decisions become Hills rather than mountains. You just listen to The Post titled making the biggest Decisions by tying in of Tainan.com. So recently try it out care of it's a monthly subscription vitamin service made from effective quality ingredients and personally tailored to your exact needs 90% of people fall short of FDA guidelines for at least one vitamin or nutrient. So I took their fun online quiz, which asks about your diet health goals and lifestyle and their recommendations are based on clinical research and from doctors and nutritionists. 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Tynan shares his thoughts on making the biggest decisions. Episode 1101: Making the Biggest Decisions by Tynan on Decision Making Skills & Resilience Tynan was named as one of the top 25 best bloggers in 2013 by Time Magazine. He believes in making deliberate decisions and breaking away from the herd mentality. He likes learning new things, building habits, exposing the world, connecting with awesome people, and creating good work. The New York Times Bestseller “The Game” featured him as one of the main characters, as he was one of the most famous pickup artists in the world. In 2008, he sold everything he owned and went on an extended world trip, becoming a fervent minimalist. Fun facts: he’s a college dropout, was a professional poker player, Courtney Love was his roommate for 9 months, and he once built a swimming pool in his living room. Facebook Group and Join the Ol' Family to get your Free Gifts! This is episode is brought to you by Care/Of. For 25 percent off your first month of personalized Care/Of vitamins, visit takecareof.com and enter promo code: OLD  ---   Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/optimal-living-daily/support 