Hey there Reader,

I have a confession. My client Danielle hired me to help her make a decision. Instead, I watched her build a 14 tab spreadsheet to avoid making one.

She called it due diligence. I called it a very expensive form of hiding.

Here's the thing about stuck decisions: they rarely stay stuck because the answer is hard to find. They stay stuck because finding the answer feels safer than living with it. Danielle already knew she needed to raise her rates. She just needed permission to stop researching and start deciding.

So I gave her one question instead of fourteen tabs: what do you already know? Turns out, she knew plenty. She raised her rates that week. The sky did not fall. Her clients did not flee. Her bank account, however, did notice.

Danielle, deciding, for the third month in a row, whether to raise her rates.

If you've got a decision sitting in your own spreadsheet graveyard right now, hit reply and tell me what it is. I read every single one.

Cheering you on,
Angela
Castle Thunder Consulting
Bold strategy. Smart systems. More sanity.

PS: Hit reply and tell me what decision you're avoiding. I promise not to make you build a spreadsheet about it.

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Quick Tip:

Most "I need more information" decisions are actually "I need permission" decisions. Before you research one more thing, ask yourself what you'd actually do differently if you had that information. If the honest answer is "nothing," you already have enough.

Action:

Pick one decision you've been sitting on. Write it down in one sentence (not the backstory, just the decision). Set a timer for 10 minutes and list everything you already know about it. You'll have more than you think.

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Danielle's spreadsheet graveyard is exactly why I built a framework that gets you from stuck to decided without 14 tabs and a crisis of confidence.

Six questions. Twenty minutes, most of the time. No spreadsheet required.

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