Not Your Average Financial Podcast™

Not Your Average Financial Podcast™


Episode 342: Beware of Analysis Paralysis

March 22, 2024

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?