Being an entrepreneur is about taking decisions. All the time. It wears you off specially if you are trying to optimize every single one. Every decision has to be the best decision. Fine tuned. To the T. It can be exhausting if not paralyzing. When is good enough good enough? Most of the time it appears.
Susan Shain in her wonderfully titled piece How to, Maybe, Be Less Indecisive (or Not) in The New York Times quotes from authors Dr. Barry Schwartz – The Paradox of Choice, Sheena Iyengar – The Art of Choosing, Greg McKeown – Essentialism and Tim Urban and his blog Wait but Why, outlines five ways to get out of limbo and enjoy what you do. These include –
- Go for good enough – most choices are good. Just go for what is good enough.
- Outsource your decisions – Want to choose a wine, trust your local wine shop to recommend.
- Employ the ‘90 Percent Rule’ – Anything that you are not 90% sure you want to do, drop it.
- Create thought experiments – Imagine the post decision life. You will know if the indecision is to avoid the awkwardness of the communication and immediate fallout.
- Remember it’s just a dot – Tim Urban says: “Referencing Steve Jobs’s famous line that you can connect the dots only looking backward, Mr. Urban urged anyone frozen by indecision to simply pick a “good next dot,” saying, “It doesn’t have to be perfect — it’s just a dot along the way.”
Getting the basics sorted can help us with being happier. So, Chinese or Mexican?
FOBO – Fear of Better Options
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/13/smarter-living/how-to-be-less-indecisive.html
