Make the decision right

Do you ever cringe looking back on some of the choices you’ve made? I have quite a few of those in my past — but there’s one decision in my business that haunts me, and I wish I could go back in time to change it.

Decision fatigue is a real thing… And the ADHD that is the internet in 2024 makes the whole process overwhelming.

Where you might have had a couple of options in the past, as soon as you Google something today, you’re followed endlessly for weeks with ads from dozens of companies all trying to get you to pick them.

It’s easy to freeze and get worried about making the wrong decision.

Thankfully (or maybe unfortunately?) there’s no way to see an alternate ending to our decisions. No parallel universe or magical window we can peek into to see how things would have turned out if we had gone right instead of left.

Our minds will trick us into believing the other decision might have been easier — but there’s no real way of knowing that for sure. In fact, the other path might have been just as rocky — or even worse.

That rationale is why I don’t have many regrets about the decisions I made. But the worst decision I’ve made? The one that I would go back and change if I could? It’s all the times I sat on the sidelines, so paralyzed by decisions that I chose to do nothing.

By standing still, I robbed myself of lessons learned and progress forward. While I sat still, the rest of the world either caught up or widened their lead.

At the doorstep of decision, there’s no real way to know which path is the right one. I’ve found that more often than not, it’s a coin flip. It’s less about making the right decision, and more about taking action with confidence and trusting that future-you will make the decision right.

You’ve done more with less before, and you’ve always found a way to make it work.

You didn’t get here by making the right move every time — you got here because you kept moving forward.