Today is about how to stop second guessing yourself. So many times we kind of forget what the goal is or what we’re working towards and, in doing so, we lose sight of the purpose. When we make a decision on something and we second-guess ourselves, what can often happen is we forget what the goal is, or what’s the purpose of this. Right?
For instance, how many of you remember taking a multiple-choice test in school, and you’d read the question and you would immediately think the answer was A. But instead of filling it in, you thought, what about B? Oh, wait, C could be right too. And then you start second guessing yourself and now you have no idea what the answer is.
They have actually proven that the first answer you consider is generally the right answer. And the reason is because if you know something, it’s pretty close to remembrance or recollection. When you have to think through it, that’s when your brain actually causes you to stumble and mess up a little bit. That’s why, statistically, your first answer–that first choice that you might pick–is usually the right one.
Oftentimes, I think we second guess ourselves because we kind of get in our own way. Part of second guessing is allowing yourself the confidence to make your decision. So if you can live with the consequences–right or wrong, good or bad–then it takes the pressure off.
I know many times when you’re making financial decisions, you think, Should we do this or should we do that? That’s not second guessing; that’s just determining which one you should do based on the information you have and making a decision. Second guessing is making a decision and then kind of waxing and waning on that decision.
