Quite often, while making a decision, I find myself in deep thought over the available options. This is not uncommon, given the fact that life today throws at us a plethora of choices...
Its not wrong to think, not at all. And that decision, however small, still affects our life. Sometimes for a short while, choosing to go for a boring movie, or an year, buying a pair of super comfy shoes. Or for the whole life, say deciding over a life partner.
The problem here is, some of us (myself included), waste an extraordinary huge amount of time to decide over things. Most of the time, things that are not worth giving a tenth of the time they stole. We take our sweet time and keep meditating on them. What we forget in this process is, total time that we have is limited. Which makes it imperative, that we make most of the available time. Now if we spend more time on deciding whether to take choice A or B, where is the time left to exercise/enjoy the outcome of our decision, or maybe to rectify? For every one second added to the decision making process, one second is deducted from the time we could have utilized our life after that decision.
So, to maximize the available time, we need to allocate the right amount of time to decision-making and move on. We just cannot endlessly keep the decision open. But a question arises, if I take a hurried decision, would that not affect the quality of it? Isn't that risky? That was my way of thinking too. I would rather keep the decision open, than to choose an option which did not have 100% of my heart. Unfortunately it is the wrong approach. One, precious time is wasted. Two, the whole purpose that decision came to me, at that precise time was because it would have brought a value-add to me and my life at that point in time. When I keep the decision pending for a long time, that value diminishes gradually. So whole of that exercise becomes a waste.
The answer is: we have to take a leap of faith. Even if a single option does not emerge as the "winner", we must go with the one which seems to be closest, and trust our instincts. Anyway, even after much deliberation we could not conclude, which means there are (and will be) unknowns involved. So its better to take the leap, free our mental energy and concentrate towards other meaningful stuff. Because while that decision is open, we are unable to live life to the maximum. When we make this decision with this approach, suddenly everything changes. The situation comes under our control. The time we were about to spend further deciding, we can now utilize to drive our actions in favor of the selected option and make most of our life. This single fact, truly means a lot. Its like, once we take this decision, it brings us back into the game, where moving ahead is the mantra, and stopping is game-over.
Its not wrong to think, not at all. And that decision, however small, still affects our life. Sometimes for a short while, choosing to go for a boring movie, or an year, buying a pair of super comfy shoes. Or for the whole life, say deciding over a life partner.
The problem here is, some of us (myself included), waste an extraordinary huge amount of time to decide over things. Most of the time, things that are not worth giving a tenth of the time they stole. We take our sweet time and keep meditating on them. What we forget in this process is, total time that we have is limited. Which makes it imperative, that we make most of the available time. Now if we spend more time on deciding whether to take choice A or B, where is the time left to exercise/enjoy the outcome of our decision, or maybe to rectify? For every one second added to the decision making process, one second is deducted from the time we could have utilized our life after that decision.
So, to maximize the available time, we need to allocate the right amount of time to decision-making and move on. We just cannot endlessly keep the decision open. But a question arises, if I take a hurried decision, would that not affect the quality of it? Isn't that risky? That was my way of thinking too. I would rather keep the decision open, than to choose an option which did not have 100% of my heart. Unfortunately it is the wrong approach. One, precious time is wasted. Two, the whole purpose that decision came to me, at that precise time was because it would have brought a value-add to me and my life at that point in time. When I keep the decision pending for a long time, that value diminishes gradually. So whole of that exercise becomes a waste.
The answer is: we have to take a leap of faith. Even if a single option does not emerge as the "winner", we must go with the one which seems to be closest, and trust our instincts. Anyway, even after much deliberation we could not conclude, which means there are (and will be) unknowns involved. So its better to take the leap, free our mental energy and concentrate towards other meaningful stuff. Because while that decision is open, we are unable to live life to the maximum. When we make this decision with this approach, suddenly everything changes. The situation comes under our control. The time we were about to spend further deciding, we can now utilize to drive our actions in favor of the selected option and make most of our life. This single fact, truly means a lot. Its like, once we take this decision, it brings us back into the game, where moving ahead is the mantra, and stopping is game-over.
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