Episode 342: Beware of Analysis Paralysis

Not Your Average Financial Podcast™

In this episode, we ask:

• What is the exceedingly odd number?
• Why?
• What about the imperial Roman war chariot?
• What about the space shuttle?
• What are the historical roots of our financial principles?
• What are the ruts?
• What are the engrained financial beliefs?
• What would you do?
• Who is stuck in the rut?
• What is analysis paralysis?
• What about second guessing yourself?
• What are the phases?
• What about curiosity?
• What about hope?
• What changes?
• What about the fear of making the wrong decision?
• What about missed opportunities?
• What about real consequences?
• What about the inverse relationship between spinning tires and forward momentum?
• Where is your energy going?
• What do we do with overwhelm?
• When does this become a problem?
• What about confusion?
• What about whirlwinds of thought?
• What about the spinning wheel of over-thinking?
• How might analysis paralysis sabotage the big issues in your life?
• Is the tire just stuck in the snow?
• What happened to Mark when he learned about the Bank on Yourself® type whole life insurance policies?
• Do you truly understand the policy?
• What about rigid thinking?
• What about cognitive flexibility?
• What are some both/and ideas?
• What about an example?
• What happened at the year-end review?
• What about perfectionism?
• What about being careful?
• What about people pleasing?
• Is the person I’m trying to please planning to be financially involved with my financial future?
• Who has made mistakes with money?
• How might one recover resilience and confidence?
• What did Mark learn when his car was stuck in the ice and snow?
• What is the correlation between learning and doing?
• What do you need to know?
• What about the contractual guarantee?
• What about the financial ruts of the past?
• Where do you want to go financially?
• What are some steps?
• What are the signals the body and mind are sending?
• What about the permission to be flexible?
• Are you confident that you can make good decisions?
• What’s the worst that can happen?
• Who is can deal with moments of stress, challenge and discomfort?
• Who deserves to get a voice, and who are the stakeholders?
• What can we predict?
• What about a financially solvent future?
• Do you know enough to make a good decision?
• What are your success stories?