3 reasons why indecision is worse than a wrong call

Some people agonize for days, weeks, months, even years, coming to one side or the other of an important decision. For some, even mundane choices, such as which restaurant to go to for dinner or which brand of item to choose from among five similar items, can be wasteful and painful to make. Consider these three facts about indecision and hopefully, only hopefully, you will allow yourself the opportunity to enjoy faster decision making for welcome change!

Moaning, turning and wallowing.

When you start to realize that your friends or family aren’t crazy about being around you, think again, you may be burning them out with your constant wallowing in the same item over and over and over again. It’s cute once or twice, heck, you might get spoiled one more time, but that’s about it! For now.

When you can never make a decision in a timely manner, you start to be a burden to people who have to listen to your constant agitation. Evasion is established as a tool provided by nature to protect yourself from those who will kill you for their own anxieties. The reality is; even after the twenty-seventh time of tossing and turning, the day’s decision is finally made, has no better chance of success than it did on day one.

The feasibility of any decision or choice made on the first day or the umpteenth day is at best 50% success and the rest failure. The question becomes; Where will your decision fall when you finally make it? That depends on three factors: execution, perseverance (tenacity) and time. Keep in mind that the last factor will negatively affect you if you hesitate, even if you end up getting the right choice.

Indecision is the number one time thief!

The old adage “time is money” will never be completely withdrawn from the English language because it turns out to actually be true. The United States is a good example full of people who literally made a fortune or changed lives because they did not wait for evidence of the feasibility of their decisions. Most successful business leaders (indeed, great leaders in general) could be described with one word: bold.

Steve Jobs had no engineering background, no college education to boast of, no previous business background, no last name, and no riches to go by, but he did have plenty of what some might call “reckless” decision-making, aka just jumping around. . in. Now he’s a household name based in large part on his guts. Now, I mean we have to be stupid when making major decisions in our lives? Of course not! but what does that have to do with waiting over and over again for a choice that you inevitably have to make anyway? Carefully consider your options to the best of your ability and make your choice and let time work in your favor. Your worry time is better spent making sure you execute your decision well. At least you will have controlled two of the factors that will increase the chances of your bottom line hitting the success percentile!

Regression and regret.

Nothing in life is a safe bet but indecision is a guarantee of regrets. It hurts when someone runs into an idea that maybe you had first and makes it a huge success. You think of ways you could have done it maybe better if you had, but now it’s out of your hands and the best you can hope for is the second person to do it.

The downside to missed opportunity-based regrets is that you become even more regressive. Life in the end, even for the most successful, is the sum total of all the decisions made. Some decisions will fail no matter how well-intentioned they may be, but others will succeed. The differentiator becomes the ratio between the successful decisions made and the unsuccessful ones.

Always remember that the success of your final pick has less to do with the number of times you turned around and more, but it has a lot to do with execution, tenacity, and timing. Should I really repeat this again? I’ll spare you the agony.

Conclusion

Do you have difficulty making decisions in a timely manner? Are you anxious when making decisions and does this article make sense to you? If you would like to share your own experience and thoughts, please email me or your circle of friends, let me know how we can further this conversation. It would be great to have a less anxious citizen of the world, freed from the fear of the unknown “wrong decision.”