(Principles are basic truths that, when applied, cause success to come to you more easily and more quickly.)


Have you ever bought a mattress after lying on it for 5 minutes in the store? How did that work out for you? Did you get lucky and find it to be a great mattress for years? Or not?

This S3MC is obviously not about mattress-buying decisions. It is about some decision-making attributes.

What could drive someone to choose where to spend a third of their life with so little investigation? Embarrassed lying down in public? Grab the first one they tried? Want to look decisive? A need for approval? A need to be right?

There can be many factors involved in decision-making. Good decision-makers are aware of them. They know themselves and their proclivities.

Picking a mattress is a metaphor that may show you how you make (or don’t make) decisions. Remember that old bit of wisdom – How you do anything is how you do everything.


Coaching Point: Got a big decision coming up? Need to sleep on it?


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