Decide!

Worry is a miss-use of your imagination. I heard this from a pastor, Andrew Wommack, during a time
when I was fearfully paralyzed from making the right decision for my business. I had convinced myself
that no answer was right and I was motivated to avoid failure.

Fear holds us back from making the best decisions, or motivates us to make poor ones. Fear causes us to
avoid potential outcomes, go into analysis-paralysis, rationalize not taking any action, and camp out on
what-if questions. We detach from and resent those around us who can help, treating them as enemies.
Fear causes our brain to anticipate a poor outcome – often an unlikely lie that we’ve come to believe.

Fear will paralyze you from stepping forward.

When we dwell on the truth of the good that has occurred, the right decisions made, and the
outstanding – sometimes miraculous – things that have happened in our lives and businesses, our brains
start to switch. Neuroscience shows that we can switch our brains from being motivated by fear to being
motivated by desire and joy.

Thinking about and meditating on the positive that has happened – the truth – fuels our brains to tune
into others and become collaborative, curious about new potentials, and creative. Joy causes us to be
glad to be with and work with those around us. This joy-motivation builds confidence to make difficult
decisions and do hard things. Joy accelerates progress.

Read more about how joy improves team health and performance here: Employee Joy Yield Employee
Engagement.

Decide based on what you want to achieve rather than what you want to avoid.

Let’s talk about how to operate joyfully with your team: brent.stromwall@eosworldwide.com.