Don’t Be Indecisive
Just pick something.
We spend far too much time thinking over our choices.
Sometimes this leads us to a point where one of those “choices” is no longer an option.
But you like that, don’t you?
You’re so indecisive that you’d rather someone else pick for you and your life.
Why?
Maybe you’ve depended on people to make decisions for you your whole life. Maybe you haven’t done enough “growing up”.
It doesn't matter.
The reality is that this is your life and you can’t depend on everyone for everything. The reality is that at the end of the day you have to make the decision and that decision affects you the most.
We sit and weigh the pros and cons all day that we end up paralyzed and don’t choose anything.
We are so scared of the unknown. We want to make sure that the choice we made was right.
But guess what?
You literally have no idea whether or not something was the right choice unless you…choose.
And yes, maybe it’ll be the wrong choice. But you will learn. That’s the best part.
We are so scared of learning from failure because all we see of failure is…failing.
The way we think about a lot of things is so wrong.
If you are in the pursuit of big dreams then your whole life is about pursuing the unknown. Your whole life is about trying to achieve something that may never work out. Your whole life is about making decisions.
You can’t take too much time making decisions.
Look, I’m not saying act right away. Weigh the pros and cons, talk to some people (but be very careful with this, some people may advise you to pick a certain option because it serves their best interest), and then decide.
This process of deciding should be done for pretty big decisions. Though, we tend to do this process for everything. It’s not always needed.
Sometimes the problem isn’t that we have two good options. Sometimes we have two bad ones. Sometimes we only have one decision to make, like getting out of bed, and struggle so much with that one decision that we never get up.
Well here’s to another day wasted. That my friend, was the wrong decision.
Sometimes we are simply scared to make one tiny decision like asking a question in class.
Every time I’m struggling to make a little decision, for whatever reason, I’ve used a process of counting to 5 before I force myself to do whatever I need to do. It works 95% of the time. No, maybe like 99%. I don’t know what it is about it that works for me.
I didn’t even know that this was an actual method. Mel Robbins wrote a whole book entitled “The 5 Second Rule” that essentially states that we have 5 seconds to make a decision to do something or we won’t. Something like that. Give it a try.
Most of our decision-making is scary because the option we are leaning toward requires more work and you don’t want that work to have been for nothing. Maybe deep down you don’t believe you have what it takes to pull it off.
Yeah…don’t think like that. Our decision-making is tough most times because of our scarcity-mindset.
If you don’t have the capability to make the tough decisions then you don’t have the capability to pursue your dreams.
Sometimes it helps to think about what would have been a better choice in the end if everything worked out and you did what you were supposed to. Don’t think about what can go wrong because you may not work hard enough or be good enough.
Assume that you will be what you need to be when you make that decision. After all, you decided right?
Deciding means fully committing. Know that when you decide to do something you will fully commit and do your best to make sure that that decision was the right one.
It’s only the wrong decision if you fail.
Most of the time we fail with certain decisions because we never fully committed to doing our best within our control to make sure the decision was a good one.
Believe in yourself, work hard, and don’t waste your time.
Don’t waste your time on making a decision that you end up not deciding at all.
The only truly wrong decision is wasting your time deciding. The other only truly wrong decision is wasting your time deciding and not choosing anything.
