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On Indecisiveness
Robin Lynn
November 30, 2024
You don’t need better choices,
you just need to choose one.
Make a decision,
and do it confidently,
quickly and efficiently.
When you have a range of possibilities to select from, you have choices.
When you resolve all uncertainty through the act of committing to a single course of action, you have made a decision.
Choice is to possibility as decision is to destiny.
Choice is what you imagine your future could be. Decision is your commitment to bring your future into being.
Choice inspires contemplation. Decision inspires commitment.
Choice is a deliberation of potential outcomes. Decision is a definitive selection and action taken.
Choices are filled with opportunity and uncertainty. In contemplating choices, you have the availability and freedom to choose your next adventure from many possibilities, and with willing uncertainty in imagining what the future holds.
Decisions are filled with certainty and clarity. In the act of selection, you call on confidence to deliberately select the next step of your journey. You will bring your future forward and into the present with courage and resolution.
Decisiveness is your capacity to make decisions quickly and effectively.
Indecisiveness is the opposite. Indecisiveness is your decision to prolong deliberation at the expense of quick and effective decision-making. it is the moment in time when you are unable to decide. Why you are so temporarily incapable of making a decision is conditional. You may have so many amazing choices you are unable to make up your mind about any of them. You may be so completely stressed out about something, making a decision from any number of bad choices is overwhelming. Either way, if you prolong indecision, you will not make any decision. When indecisiveness leads to no other decision than deciding to extend the deliberation, you have chosen to do absolutely nothing at all. Indecisiveness when used in appropriate measure however has its benefits too — how does it serve you?
3 ideas + 3 questions
3 ideas:
Identify 5 reasons for justifying indecisiveness.
Identify 5 reasons for avoiding decisiveness.
Reflect on a time you took decisive action without the privilege of choice. Note if and how it supports your tendency to be indecisive.
3 questions:
Is decisiveness stressful, if so, why?
Does indecision keep you anxious or worried?
How does indecision help you to become more flexible?
3 insights
Indecision is the greatest thief of opportunity.
The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
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