Indecision-The Thief Of Achievement

 

Small steps can move us forward.

According to Marie Forleo’s book titled “Everything is Figureoutable”, indecision is among the biggest obstacles in the way of achieving our goals. It’s easy to find reasons to doubt ourselves and hesitate to make a decision.

Marie herself, an entrepreneur, writer, philanthropist and unshakeable optimist dedicated to helping you become the person you most want to be, claims to have spent years fretting about whether she could or should pursue her dreams before she finally decided to go for it.

It’s true that, if we’re not careful, years can turn into a lifetime, as indecisiveness turns into permanent paralysis.

That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t think, plan or do the research before we delve into pursuing a goal. But we’ll never get anywhere sitting on the fence, and there’s only one way to test out an idea to find out if it’s a winner- and that is taking action.

We tend to need to achieve clarity before we can act on an idea and we let indecisiveness get the best of us. The point is that thinking alone will never get us there.

Thinking we have to make a big decision right away in order to pursue our dreams is another trap we get ourselves in. All we have to do to escape the clutches of indecisiveness is take a small step forward and get our feet wet.

For instance, I have been wavering about whether to move to a new country, but I could just visit to see what it feels like to live there.

It’s not necessary to have to immediately go big or go home, once and for all. I can just do something that takes me one more step closer to gaining clarity and making a decision one way or the other.

“Stop waiting to be ‘ready’ to pursue your dreams; the time to act is now.”

Marie Forleo