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Nothing is more frustrating to me than seeing things I procrastinated on, or worse yet things I was afraid of flourish. I had 2 of these very things hit me in the face in the last few weeks.

NO MORE

My prayer for all of us is that we would stop being irrationally afraid. Count the costs and DO IT! There will always be course corrections. There will be plenty of things that die on the vine. Learn from the failures and Go GO GO!

This guy knows you can do and he believes in you. Go get it done!

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.

- Seth Godin "Choosing without Deciding"

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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If we try and fail, we see the cost. The number of hours and dollars spent on the project. We feel the pain when it doesn't work. The embarrassment is acute.

This makes inaction tempting.

We don't consider refusing to choose as a choice. We think we're safe if we don't expose ourselves to failure. We don't appreciate the consequences of inaction because they are slow, chronic, and less obvious. That's what makes them dangerous.

You don't get to escape pain.

The pain that comes with action is acute, scars you, and makes you grow.

The pain that comes from inaction is low grade, softens you, and decays your soul.