How to create more options for yourself
Most of the time, more options won’t make for a happier life.
But there are situations where it can help.
Let’s say you’re in a financial crunch. Would it help to have more options or fewer?
More would be better, right? Especially if there were certain options you didn’t want to take unless you absolutely had to.
But when you’re in that situation of needing more options, it can be harder to come up with them. This is because you’re under a lot of stress. You need the money, but you needed it yesterday!
Now, there is a lesson here in that it’s better to dig your well before you’re thirsty. The reason this is hard is because you aren’t necessarily expecting there to be any challenges ahead. You might be doing well right now, so you assume the good times aren’t going to come to an end.
Regardless, having many options in an instance like that would make you feel a lot less frazzled and worried. You could start going down your options list, actioning one or two items today, actioning one or two more tomorrow, and so on.
So, how do you create more options for yourself? Here are a few ways to beef up your options list.
