I recently got a question from someone who says they struggle with overthinking everything and end up regretting their decisions.
Can you relate?
I believe the root of most indecision is caused by the fear of failure.
Understand that this is an issue of how you are choosing to think and that you can change it.
Author Jean Plaid said, “Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.”
What if you chose to look at your decisions that way?
You might also be convincing yourself that you made the “wrong decision” and that the outcome would have been better had you chosen something else.
Are you sure about that?
The philosopher Kierkegaard said this: “There are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.”
So maybe you would regret your decision, no matter what?
If you are paralyzed by indecision, in your desire not to be wrong and not to choose, you have elected to make a decision by default. To do nothing.
And yet, any decision is better than nothing and can move you in a new direction with new opportunities.
What might seem like the wrong decision now, may turn out for the best later. The same is true with rejection. Sometimes the biggest no's lead to an unexpected yes!
