Life Check Yourself

How Choice Can Change Your Life with Kim DeYoung

Jul 5, 2023

Kim DeYoung, an entrepreneur and choice coach with over two decades of experience, shares her insights on the power of decision-making. She discusses how fear often paralyzes choices and emphasizes the importance of recognizing personal agency. Kim introduces the choice mapping process, encouraging individuals to reshape limiting narratives that affect their self-image. They explore practical strategies for making conscious decisions, highlighting the transformative journey of understanding and visualizing choices to enhance personal growth.

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Quick takeaways

Recognizing your agency in decision-making empowers you to act according to your values, freeing you from societal pressures and limiting beliefs.

The choice mapping system allows individuals to visualize their decision-making journey, fostering reflection and clarity in future choices for personal growth.

Deep dives

The Power of Choices

Making choices significantly impacts the lives of individuals, yet many feel paralyzed by indecision. People often believe they lack options due to responsibilities such as caregiving or work commitments, leading to a mindset where choices seem reserved for others. In truth, every day, people make approximately 35,000 choices, from mundane decisions about meals to significant life changes. Recognizing one's agency in decision-making is crucial, as it empowers individuals to act according to their values rather than succumb to the pressure of others' expectations.

Intro

2min

Empowerment Through Choice

5min

Breaking Free from Limiting Narratives

2min

The Power of Choice: A Mind Mapping Journey

18min

Navigating Life Choices: Confidence and Emotional Complexity

3min

Embracing Fun in Social Media and Finding Love

2min

Marni welcomes Kim DeYoung in the Life Check Yourself studio, where they discuss the fear that comes with making choices. The duo delve into the ways with which to overcome that indecision that paralyzes a lot of men and women when faced with an important decision. Kim is an entrepreneur, choice coach, and the author of The Book of Choice. She has had over two decades of experience in helping entrepreneurs and individuals make meaningful choices that help them bring their ideas and dreams to life.

Takeaways from this episode:

- Let go of fear

- A lot of it is about consciousness

- What is the choice mapping process?

You Control All Your Choices [06:55]

Everybody has to make choices. It's unavoidable, and we’re making thousands of them a day whether we realize it or not. It is important to realize that you have agency and control over your choices. Even when it is something that is out of your control, your agency lies in how you choose to react to it. The key is to find where in that choice you actually have control.

Many of us have been conditioned into thinking that we can’t make a choice due to past experiences among other things. Release that limiting belief.

We sit in a story about who we were, how we were labeled. All of those stories, if we don’t consciously work to get rid of them or remarry them, affect how we show up and how we make choices.

The Choice Mapping System [11:28]

It is important to capture the important internal dialogue for yourself. In noting down your choices and keeping track of them, you are able to learn and grow.

In every choice, whether a positive or negative outcome, there is something to be learned. It is always unfolding for you even when sometimes it doesn’t feel good.

For better or for worse, all the choices we make are unlocking a treasure trove.

A Leap of Faith [17:56]

It is almost like a tug war where on the one hand your fear is holding you back but on the other hand what is possible is pulling you into the future. But pushing forward requires a sense of awareness, consciousness and alertness. It starts by doing the work on yourself and showing up for yourself.

Step into what’s possible to let go of the fear of what’s there.

Make a Connection:

- 3 Secrets Men Wish You Knew *Free Download*

- Follow us on Instagram @marnibattista_

- Kim DeYoung's book: The Book of Choice

- Kim DeYoung’s FREE 5 Questions to Ask Before Making a Choice