“We’re using Polarsteps for our trip,” she said. “So cool! And afterwards you only have to press a button to have it create a hardcover book with pictures and notes and what have you.”
The app does it all: it tracks your journey, so you can see exactly where you were at 4.17 pm on July 24. You can add photos and descriptions and use the app as a journal for your travels.
I get why my friend loves the app. She loves creating photo books. Making memories, storing them somehow, and looking back at them.
I’m not interested in any of that.
Yes, I take photos. Because I love the act of making them, and because I use them on my website and blogs.
But other than that?
I’m only interested in the experience I’m having right now.
Not in thinking back at something from twelve years ago. Or trying to hold onto this now so I can take it into a next now.
Different ways of living.
One’s not better or worse than the other.
Just the way it is.
And it’s easy to see what to do:
Not install the app.
It’s not for me.
Of course, this is a low-stakes decision. What difference does it make if you do or don’t get this app?
It’s not life or death and there’s zero attachment to any kind of outcome.
Other types of decisions feel much more important.
Like: should I raise my prices?
Should I completely revamp my business and offers?
Should I say ‘yes’ to this marriage proposal, do I ever want children, and should I paint my living room walls black?
High-stakes decisions seem harder to make because you have more to win (or lose) than creating a hardcover photo book by clicking one button.
And yet …
That same, simple clarity is available for more complicated choices, too.
Because you don’t make decisions — they just show up.
Even though it convincingly seems like the decision is the outcome of thinking about something for 3 hours, talking it over with all your friends, and having several frantic late-night chats with ChatGPT.
But when you look closer, you’ll see that decisions just … arrive.
Whether you make pro and con lists or not.
You can still make a list or talk things through.
But you’re just doing it for the sake of doing it.
Not because your life depends on the outcome.
Decisions becoming simple, the unimportant and the life-and-death ones, is just some of what happens in private coaching.
Read more here if that speaks to you.
To always knowing what to do without breaking out in sweats and rashes,
Love,
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