{"id":1844,"date":"2022-02-08T01:36:57","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T01:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/uncategorized\/1844\/"},"modified":"2022-02-08T01:36:57","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T01:36:57","slug":"1844","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/uncategorized\/1844\/","title":{"rendered":"<a href=https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A6896627869909446659><\/a>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A quick no is better than a lingering maybe.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;One of my clients shared this advice she got from a mentor, and I love the simplicity of it. &#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Many of us value optionality to the point that we never want to close off options, so we never say no. But we don&#8217;t acknowledge the opportunity cost of keeping options open which can show up as anxiety about the ambiguity, or effort spent analyzing the potential option. &#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;I find it helpful to remember that a quick no does not mean I can never revisit the decision. It just means I&#8217;m not doing it now, so I can stop thinking about it and move on. If an option re-appears, then I will consider it again and see if it makes sense at that point (and if it never re-appears, it probably wasn&#8217;t that critical).&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;What options have you been letting linger with a maybe? Which of them could you close down now with a quick no, while giving yourself permission to revisit the decision if things change?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;#decisionmaking #decisiveness<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quick no is better than a lingering maybe.&#8221; &#8220;&#8221; &#8220;One of my clients shared this advice she got from a mentor, and I love the simplicity of it. &#8221; &#8220;&#8221; &#8220;Many of us value optionality to the point that we never want to close off options, so we never say no. But we don&#8217;t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}