The Bane of Being Indecisive

How to make better decisions faster.

I’ve never been good at deciding. I always had a hard time choosing. When I was a child, my usual response to most questions was the Hindi version of “I’ll tell after thinking.”

What ice cream to eat? same response. Where’d you like to go? Same response. Which subject do you like the best? Same response. There’s still a running joke about this in my family.

But in the last few years, I’ve been working on making quicker and better decisions. My biggest end goal while making any decisions is to avoid regrets. And slowly I’m getting better at making them.

Have you ever been indecisive before making an important decision?

When faced with important decisions, it’s our natural instinct to be scared and worried. To hesitate. After all, we don’t want to make mistakes. We don’t want to make a fool of ourselves.

So we delay. Not making hasty decisions is good, we tell ourselves.

You should think clearly and deeply before making any big decision. But this process goes all wrong when you don’t make any decision at all.

When faced with a tough situation, the fear grips us. I can understand, I’ve been there.

We as human have a tendency to doubt ourselves. To think we are not good enough. To feel like an imposter. We believe our decision won’t be good enough. People will judge us. We will fail.

The main reason we doubt our decisions is because we lack belief in ourselves.

What we have to keep in mind is that we’re the best judge of our lives. You’ve got this far in life, surely you can go further yourself.

At times, we fail to understand our responsibility. We fail to acknowledge that we are in complete control of our life. Whatever happens to us, is our responsibility.

But most of us would rather let others decide for us. At least we got someone to blame.

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