How To Make a Decision
March 14th, 2006 by Laura Moncur in MotivationI have found this quotation to be profoundly true. I cannot buy a toothbrush without being bombarded by a plethora of choices. It used to be firm, medium or soft. Now, I have so many choices in just the toothbrush aisle that I am paralyzed by it.
How do we do it? How do we move beyond the paralysis and make a decision, whether it’s about our lives or what we are going to put in our mouths every morning?
When we played pinochle, my grandpa used to say, “Make a decision. Even if it’s wrong.” He was talking about cards, but I really feel that philosophy is the way to live life. I can get paralyzed by the choices that are out there, but if I make a snap decision it usually works out for me.
When it’s something like a toothbrush, there is no big risk, but when it’s something like a career choice, I have lived my life that way as well. Sure, I wasted time trying to find the career that was best for me, but I learned so much in the meantime. If I had stayed in college until I KNEW what I wanted to do for a living, I might still be there instead of here in a career that I love with a bag full of experience from my attempts at other careers.
There is something to be said for our abilities as humans to make decisions, even if they’re wrong.