Omar Usman – Decisive Deep Dive Widen Your Options WRAP Framework

			The first step in the wrap framework
		

			is w,
		

			widen your options. Now, this is one of
		

			those things that is super simple, is very
		

			easy to understand, is very easy to explain,
		

			but the challenge is in the application
		

			and in recognizing
		

			when this applies. See, a lot of us,
		

			we have a tendency to paint ourselves into
		

			a corner, give ourselves a false choice of
		

			either or when in reality we should be
		

			doing both.
		

			Someone that I follow and admirer, Amit Sethi,
		

			he always gives us example of a college
		

			who in their FAQ they say, students will
		

			ask us, should I take an honors class
		

			and make a b, or should I take
		

			a regular class and make an a? And
		

			in their answer they say well most of
		

			our students take the honors class and they
		

			find a way to make an A. And
		

			so we understand that concept, but we put
		

			ourselves in this corner all the time. So
		

			someone might say for example I wanna become
		

			a project manager.
		

			Should I spend more time
		

			trying to get experience,
		

			or should I spend more time trying to
		

			study for the exam and prepare? And the
		

			answer is well actually you need to be
		

			doing both.
		

			Someone asked me well should I focus on
		

			building up my LinkedIn profile or should I
		

			focus on making a resume? And again, the
		

			answer is do both. We find this example
		

			a lot with people that are starting college,
		

			and so someone might say okay,
		

			do I take out a student loan for
		

			$50,000
		

			or do I just not go to college?
		

			And so they struggle with this decision that
		

			because that's a lot of money, it's a
		

			huge loan, do I do that or do
		

			I just not go to school and maybe
		

			not set myself up properly?
		

			And we realized that that's actually a false
		

			choice.
		

			There's a lot more options. Could you save
		

			money by going to community college for 2
		

			years first?
		

			Have you spent any significant amount of time
		

			applying for scholarships?
		

			Have you looked at maybe graduating in 6
		

			years instead of 4 years and working part
		

			time to pay for part of your school?
		

			Maybe there's a way between working in scholarships
		

			to take less of a student loan. Maybe
		

			going to a public university would lower my
		

			tuition but still allow me to get that
		

			education. There's a whole host of options,
		

			but when we put ourselves into this either
		

			or thinking,
		

			we limit
		

			what we're able to do, and so because
		

			of that, we end up making a bad
		

			decision. So to avoid that narrow framing, to
		

			avoid that either or mentality,
		

			always look at is there a way to
		

			do both,
		

			and what are the other options on the
		

			table that I'm not considering.