How to Make Difficult Decisions Easily

2 tips to stop you agonizing over decisions.

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Do you have trouble making decisions?

I’m personally very decisive, and I make decisions very quickly. I often don’t have a lot of patience for people who overthink decisions. Why?

Is your decision going to be any sounder after spending hours pondering every angle rather than just going with your immediate gut feeling? Perhaps, but in most cases, probably not.

Overthinking is a mental state characterized by excessive worry, rumination, and analysis of irrelevant details. While this can sometimes help make important decisions or solve complex problems, it often leads to negative consequences like anxiety, stress, indecision, and self-doubt.

There are two strategies that I recommend for making decisions.

1. Follow your gut instinct because it’s probably right.

While this sounds easy enough, I’ve had many people tell me that they don’t know what their instinct or intuition is telling them. They have trouble “hearing” their instinct because their head’s mind chatter is so loud.

Instinct or intuition is never a voice inside your head. It’s a feeling. If I’m not sure what my intuition is telling…