3 reasons why indecision is worse than a bad decision
Some people agonize for days, weeks, months, even years that come from one side or the other to an important decision. For some, even mundane choices, like which restaurant to go to for dinner or which brand of item to choose from among five similar items, can be time consuming and painful to make. Consider these three facts about indecision, and hopefully, just hopefully, you will be given a chance to enjoy faster decision making for a welcome change!
Moaning, spinning and wallowing.
When you start to realize that your friends or family are not crazy to be with you a lot, think carefully, you may be burning them with your constant wallowing in the same object over and over and over again. It’s cute once or twice, you might be pleased one more time, but that’s it! For now.
When you can never make a decision in a timely manner, it starts to burden people who have to listen to your constant turmoil. Avoidance establishes itself as a tool provided by nature to protect itself from those who will kill it with their self-created anxieties. The reality is; Even after the twenty-seventh time of tossing and turning, the day the decision is finally made, you have no better chance of success than day one.
The feasibility of any decision or choice made on the first day or the nth day is, at best, 50% successful and the rest a failure. The question is; Where will your decision fall when you finally make it? That depends on three factors: execution, perseverance (tenacity) and time. Note that the last factor will affect you negatively if you hesitate, even if you end up with the correct choice in the end.
Indecision is a number one time thief!
The old adage ‘time is money’ will never be completely removed from the English language because it turns out to be actually true. America is a good example filled with people who literally made a fortune or changed lives because they did not wait for proof of the viability of their decisions. The most successful business leaders (in fact, great leaders in general) could be described with one word: courage.
Steve Jobs had no engineering background, had no college education to brag about, had no prior business background, had no last name or wealth, but he had many things that some might call “reckless” decision making, also known as just jumping. on. It is now a household name based largely on guts. Now, do I mean that we have to be stupid when making big decisions in our lives? Of course not! But what does that have to do with waiting over and over 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 for you. It’s best to spend your time worrying about making sure you execute your decision well. You will have at least controlled for two of the factors that will increase your chances of your bottom line success percentile!
Regression and regrets.
Nothing in life is a safe bet, but indecision is a guarantor of regrets. It hurts when someone runs with an idea that perhaps you had for the first time and turns it into a huge success. You think of ways you could have done better if you had, but now it’s out of your hands and the best you can hope for is for the second person to do it.
The downside to missed opportunity regrets is that it regresses even more. Life in the end, even for the most successful, is the sum total of all decisions made. Some decisions will fail no matter how well intentioned, but others will succeed. The differentiator becomes the relationship between the successful decisions made and the unsuccessful ones.
Always remember that the success of your final choice has less to do with the number of times it was delivered, but it has a lot to do with execution, tenacity, and time. Should I really repeat this again? I will save you the agony.
Conclution
Are you having trouble making decisions in a timely manner? Are you anxious when making decisions and does this article make sense to you? If you want to share your own experience and thoughts, please email me or your circle of friends, let me know how we can expand this conversation. It would be great to have a less anxious world citizen freed from the fear of the unknown “wrong decision”.