Step 2 in my 5-step framework is to decide. After you’ve spent time dreaming, what adventure is calling you? Go back to your list. We can create many goals for the year. For the purposes of this exercise, is there one thing that you will focus on for the rest of the year? If you have many ideas, write them all down. Carve out some time and choose one that resonates the most with you now. Let’s assume they are all million dollar ideas. What idea lights you up? Circle that idea. Star it. Put it on your vision board.

I used to get so paralyzed about decision making. I’d go into analysis paralysis. If I do this, that what about that? Let me weigh all the pros and cons of everything. Can you relate? What I’ve learned over the decades is that indecision is a decision to remain stuck. It’s easy to fall prey to “I don’t know what to do.” Don’t fall in this trap, friend. Make a decision. One of the best ways to make a decision is to make it quickly! I came across an article and video from Jack Canfield and he said the following:

One of the best ways to eliminate decision paralysis is to make decisions quickly. In fact, many of the world’s most successful innovators and leaders owe much of their success to their ability to make decisions quickly.

When you make decisions quickly, you leave no room for doubt, worry, and confusion. Instead of wasting time worrying about all of the possibilities and trying to endlessly analyze every potential outcome, making a quick decision enables you to immediately begin devoting your efforts to following through on that decision.

If you truly commit to a decision, you’ll find that following through on it is much easier than you might have thought…

Thankfully, making decisions quickly doesn’t have to be difficult. No matter what decision you might be faced with, the only thing you have to determine is whether or not this is something you want or need and whether or not it is worth committing your time to.

If the answer to both of those questions is yes, you have everything you need to make a decision right away. Any other questions or concerns that you might have will answer themselves along the way if you are committed to making your decision a reality.

Reference: https://www.jackcanfield.com/blog/decision-making/

One of the women I interviewed in my book, Lisa, shared some great advice one of her former bosses. If you made a “wrong” decision, you can always make a new one. Good perspective. As I write this post, another thing I think about is perfectionism. Do you like to do things “just so” or “right” or “perfectly” I think that is a trap too. It’s a way to keep you from moving forward. It also leads to analysis paralysis. Don’t do it friend. Decide on a goal and revel in the fact that you made the best decision for you right now. Will you do it? What did you decide?