Our days as coaches can often feel like a constant barrage of decisions big and small, which can result in the overwhelm known as “decision fatigue.” Expert and coach Rahti Gorfien shares advice on escaping the grind of too many decisions.

Rahti Gorfien is a certified life coach, accredited ADHD coach, and founder of Creative Calling Coaching.

Today, Melinda and Rahti talk about:

• Indecision being a form of self-abuse
• How we avoid decisions to stay in comfort and safety
• Bringing others into your decision-making 
• Decision fatigue
• How working on your own decision-making helps your clients as well
• Making a decision versus letting it reveal itself
• Melinda’s decision-making policies
• Symptoms of decision fatigue
• The importance of planning and the role of intuition

“The times that I made what I would consider mistakes are when I decided to do something, but was so insecure in myself that I didn’t want to share the various options with anyone else.”

Rahti Gorfien

Once an aspiring but struggling performer, Rahti Gorfien has since realized the diversity of her background is clearly a key element in the evolution of her coaching style. Having been an actor, playwright, standup comic, private cook, company manager, restaurant hostess, and adoptive parent, she can accurately say she’s experienced life from many enriching perspectives. She even spent several years as a full-time yogini living at an ashram in Pennsylvania!  

If you haven’t guessed by now, Rahti is a seeker — and as a result, her approach to life and coaching is both humorous and compassionate. In addition to having become a professionally certified coach, she has been helping individuals realize their creative, vocational, and personal potential since 1990.

Resources or websites mentioned in this episode:
Mirasee
Coaches Console
Rathi’s website: CreativeCallingCoaching.com
Rathi’s free “The Three Keys to Decision-Making”

Credits:
Host: Melinda Cohan
Producer: Michi Lantz
Supervising Producer: Cynthia Lamb
Executive Producer: Danny Iny
Audio Post Supervisors: Evan Miles and Christopher Martin
Audio Post Production: Post Office Sound
Music Soundscape: Chad Michael Snavely
Making our hosts sound great: Home Brew Audio

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Music credits:
Track Title: Clouds
Artist Name: Acreage
Writer Name: Marshall Usinger
Publisher Name: BOSS SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTIONS

Track Title: Coastline Dream
Artist Name: Wild Sky
Writer Name: Adam Simons
Publisher Name: BOSS SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTIONS

Track Title: Coo Coos
Artist Name: Dresden, The Flamingo
Writer Name: Matthew Wigton
Publisher Name: A SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTION

Track Title: Stars & Trees
Artist Name: Outside The Sky
Writer Name: Dustin Ransom
Publisher Name: A SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTION

Special effects credits:
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