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This or that, one or the other, it doesn't matter.
It's actually possible that it just doesn't matter. A choice, but not a decision.
We have to make choices like this every single day. What color, among three colors which are just fine. Which route, between two routes within a rounding error in time taken. Which flight, which table, which person...
Choices don't have to be decisions.
How may choices do you make on a daily basis? The decision-making process is draining. You need to find a way to short-circuit it. In the below TED talk Barry Schwartz the author of The Paradox of Choice shares some thoughts why too many decisions is draining and what we can do about it.
My wife teases me about my 60 Second Decision concept but it flows from the same thing that Schwartz brings up. If there are too many choices we won't make a decision or we'll delay it. Godin crystallizes by saying that many of the choices we have to make are so insignificant that we should devote so much energy to them.
This is where the 60 second decision comes into play. If you have a choice to make, and the consequences are small to non-exisitent pick one and move on.
I have seen so many people lock in the analysis loop. I used to get stuck trying to make the right choice.
What-about-ism is real and it can kill success.
The year is winding down and now is the time to leave behind bad habits. Analysis paralysis is one to leave in 2017.
GO GO GO
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