Choose Wisely
Let’s Choose Wisely. Friends have been lighting up my phone with a common question:
What do you think about this job offer?
January is known as a big month for posting jobs – making February a big month for job offers and life-changing decisions.
The game is “Let’s Make a Deal” and I am your host. I can’t tell you which door to choose, but I can explain the game.
Behind each of these three doors lies an opportunity to learn and grow.
Door #1 - Take the new job.
Door #2 - Stay where you are.
Door #3 - Seek another opportunity in or out of your current company.
That’s the real life version of the game. The TV show version of “Let’s Make a Deal” first debuted in 1963, and a new version can still be seen on TV today.
In the TV Game show, a contestant is faced with three closed doors. Behind only one door is a fabulous, high-value prize. Behind the other two doors are a "zonk," an item purposely chosen to be of little or no value.
You choose one door, but it remains closed until the host opens one of the other two doors showing a zonk. Then, the twist! The host gives you a choice to stick with your original choice OR switch to the other remaining unopened door.
As soon as you make your choice, you are given another choice.
Statistics show that you're actually twice as likely to win the big prize if you switch doors. Your ability to strategically change your mind is most often rewarded.
In both the Game Show and the Game of Life:
YOU CAN CHANGE YOUR MIND!
As soon as you make your choice, you are always given another choice. The game is more about your ability to make choices than it is about the prize.
When faced with big life choices, we often fear there is only ONE PRIZE behind only ONE DOOR. It’s simply not true. No matter what you choose, you will always have another choice to make.
Every choice leads to more choices. The game of life keeps going with countless choices.
Door #1 - Take the new job.
Door #2 - Stay where you are.
Door #3 - Seek another opportunity in or out of your current company.
When my friends ask what I think about a job offer, I tell them this:
Whatever choice you make, you must make the best of your choice.
All three doors are an opportunity to learn and grow. Regardless of the choice you make, it’s always your responsibility and within your power to make the best of your choice.
The ability to choose wisely comes with experience and practice. Make the best choice for YOU for NOW. And then recognize that the real work begins AFTER you make a choice.
The job offer itself isn’t the prize behind the door. The prize comes from your ability to make multiple choices leading to a prize behind every door you choose.
And if you ever make a choice that leads to a zonk, you can always change your mind. You ALWAYS have a choice and the power to go, stay, or create a new opportunity.
Let’s choose wisely together. Let’s choose to make the best of our choices.
