Dissolving Confusion

From Indecision to Decision

The most clear-headed people I’ve known were the most decisive. They made up their minds to do something, and they did it. They were decisive and took action. Confusion is a symptom of indecisiveness.

For me, indecisiveness was a function of fear — fear of making the wrong decision. If you approach a decision with the right mindset, you don’t have to be afraid of making the wrong one.

The right mindset is that I make the right decision. Good decision-making has two components: the confidence to make the right decision and the ability to quickly course-correct when you don’t. You always want to make a decision as soon as you can because the longer you allow uncertainty to set it, the more confusion you attract and the more difficult it is to move forward.

I was indecisive growing up. As long as someone was making the decisions, I may not have been happy, but I did not have to bear the burden of decision-making. Of course, the longer you live, the more decisions you have to make. When I was finally in a position where I was the chief decision-maker, I failed spectacularly.

The pattern followed this way: procrastinating on making a decision as long as possible. Instead of making an informed decision, they took a shot in the dark. The decision turned out poorly…