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.