Morgan GillisFounder & Owner of Client Success Solutions LLC

One of the best things I've gotten from sales: learning to close myself on things I need to do.

13 Jun 2026 · 1 min

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In this candid monologue, the speaker applies sales decision‑making tactics to personal actions. He walks through a worst‑case analysis of spending $9,000, framing it as a gamble rather than a loss, and estimates a 75% chance of success. By laying out the problem, options, and probabilities on a whiteboard, he argues that doing something—taking a calculated risk—is preferable to remaining idle. The core message is that the sales skill of “closing” can be turned inward to make confident, self‑directed decisions.

And what's the worst case scenario? Worst case scenario is you set like $9K on fire. Are you gonna die? No. What the fuck are we talking about here? I'm gonna draw it out on my whiteboard, think about it for a second, be like, okay, this is the problem you're trying to solve. These are the fucking options. What do you wanna do? I don't think the answer is to do nothing and keep doing what we're doing. In my mind, this is basically a $9,000 gamble. And I think the probability of it working out in my head is like 75%. Like take a gamble, you know? Yeah. Like you're never gonna get 100% certainty on something.