Overcoming hesitation

Short note: I wrote about overcoming hesitation by taking action. Please reply to my email or comment here with your thoughts. I also write a newsletter with commentary on how businesses make money. Newsletter link here.

How do you act? Does someone push you to move forward? Is it the same people every time who weigh in? Do you have a different person to turn to for a different facet of your life? How do your decisions get made? Is there a process? Should there be a process? Is it case by case? Is it even something you think about?

Now, you will. Now, you will spend a few seconds pondering over how you decide. It is natural to take stock of circumstances and make a decision. It is wise to do so when you have access to 100% of the required information. It becomes harder when you don’t know enough. It complicates your choices because you have to live with the end-result. You will face more decisions equipped with inadequate information. We can couch our decisions as educated guesses. In reality, these come with a thin paint of conviction that reveals much more than it hides.

I am trying to move past the chasm between hesitation and action. No one stops you from making a decision. Absolutely no one hinders your act of decision making as much as you do. This understanding is not new. I, you are aware that our actions balloon and diminish in our heads in proportion to the attention we lavish upon them. Life is about our choices and our choices are made with action and inaction.

I want to be intentional about my choices. And so, I am pushing myself to realize that decision making is a beginning. It is not a culmination of events. It is a start. Everything that happens afterwards is unknown, and you make the path by walking it. This helps me inch forward and take action. I decide and then figure out how my subsequent actions can propel me to my goals.

The spectre of uncertainty still looms large. You cannot completely shake the doubt that accompanies a decision. You grow to accept that there are variables and proceed with the belief that your will can override them. This requires lifelong practice. It means you build a reserve within which helps you push back against the naysayers. This is important. If you do not do this, you will fall and fail to recover.

In life, as in business, your number one priority is to survive. If you survive for one more day, you get to make one more decision. Your one more decision will be followed by one more action. This action can unlock the life that you dreamt about. This can only happen if you believe in yourself. If you lack this belief, just pretend. Make a decision and trust that you will figure it out. This can be the difference.