Most people have a very difficult time making decisions.  Sometimes these decisions aren’t that important like a choosing between going to Knotts Berry Farm or Disneyland. But other times, they are hard, like choosing between giving your dieing uncle a kidney or not. Do you wanna know how to make every decision easy?

Trust your gut and GO WITH IT!  If you don’t know what your gut is saying, read on to see if you resonate with some of the examples below.

Let me throw out some scenarios where being wishy washy and sitting on the fence hurts you.

1. Career Choice: What if you don’t know what you want to do with your life? Maybe you are about to graduate college and you need to find a job to make some money and satisfy your nagging parents who just spent $100,000 to put you through school. If you don’t know what you want to do for a career, your best bet is not picking some mediocre job to pay the bills because it will probably suck all your time away. You should choose something that allows you the flexibility to find out what you really want to do, and make a smooth transition into it. Its really not that hard.

2. On a date: Women don’t like guys who can’t make a decision. It shows you are an approval seeking wussy without a backbone. She would rather you pick a mediocre restaurant and go with it then drive around asking her “what are you in the mood for?” I know this because I used to do it all the time. Can you think of other scenarios in a relationship or with meeting women where you need to make decisions quickly? I can think of tons.

3. Sports (On the golf course): What if you are between clubs on a watery 178 yard par 3 and don’t know whether to hit an easy 5 iron or a hard 6 iron. You can stand up on the tee and think about how you might have the wrong club during your backswing and dunk one in the pond or just pick the hard 6, commit to it, and probably hit a good shot. If you hit it short in the water, you may be wet, but at least you’re not an indecisive wimp.

4. In Business: What if you are deciding whether or not to invest some money alongside your friend in some real estate venture or buy a house of your own. You could tell your friend that you need to review the documents you don’t really understand and not get around to doing it for weeks which would really piss your friend off, or you could be honest with yourself and either say no, yes, or have a professional review them for you. If you are deciding on a property to buy, you could look around for a year and waste 20,000 on rent because you couldn’t pick a place, or you could have put that 20,000 toward your mortgage on a place that maybe isn’t the best deal in the world but at least you didn’t squander 20K.

I could continue on with more examples but I hope you are getting the point here. MAKE A DECISION, EVEN IF IT IS WRONG! Not only do other people appreciate someone who doesn’t waste their time but it actually helps your self esteem and inner confidence more then you may realize. When you make a decision, you grow as a person because you are accomplishing something.

Time is our most precious resources because it is the only resource we can’t get back.  If you sit on the fence for awhile then make a decision, you have lost those 3 months, and you’ll never get it back.  The worst decision is always the decision to not make a decision.

So try this out, go a week or even just a day without being indecisive and see how it makes you feel. Let me know your results and if you have a really tough decision to make, post a comment and I’ll give you my two cents.

Cheers,

Robbie Kramer

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