Don’t wait

Sometimes you have no choice but to make a choice. The deadline is now and it definitively has to be left or right, green or red, up or down.

Whilst pondering the choice, take five seconds to work out what would happen if you had to, absolutely, nothing you could do about it, switch to the other side in a week or a month or a year. Sure, there’d be some sunk costs, and the loss of time or face.

But … could you do it?

If you had to?

Almost every time, the answer is Yes (and you know it).

One other factor – if the choice was obvious, you’d have a made the decision already.

Which means – next time it’s a judgement call and that there’s an escape hatch waiting down the track … don’t wait, get moving.

Skippy strategy: Most decisions are lower risk than you think.

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Decisions