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What Your Decision-Making Says About You [AI Prompt]

This is why your need for control is more powerful than your ability to trust others. You want the truth? I don't think you can handle the truth.

Apr 07, 2026
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You probably made a decision in the past week that you shouldn’t have made.

Maybe you know what it is, but if you’re anything like my leadership coaching clients, you most likely don’t.

It’s not that you made a bad decision. You’re a smart person with good intentions, so let’s assume it was a good one.

It’s also not that the decision was too important for other people to handle.
It wasn’t.

The problem is that you made a decision simply because you thought it felt wrong to have somebody else do it.

So you did it yourself.

Maybe you told yourself it’s faster that way. Maybe you convinced yourself that nobody else has the context needed to decide effectively.

Or maybe you keep promising that you’ll delegate more as soon as things settle down a little.

Meanwhile, other people on your team are wondering why you’re doing their job for them. They’re wondering what decisions are actually theirs - and which ones you’ve just pretended are theirs.

And you don’t even know this is happening.
It’s all going on in your leadership blind spots.

It’s time you saw your decision-making the way that everybody else does.

This prompt isn’t about how you delegate better - that’s a whole different cup of coffee.

This prompt will reveal what you’re actually protecting by not letting go. What you believe about yourself that makes hoarding control feel better than trusting others.

Are you ready for the truth?
Because I’m not sure you can handle the truth.

You might want to brace yourself for this one.
Run the prompt below. 👇🏽

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