Have you heard this phrase “analysis paralysis” before? Basically, it’s when you’re so stuck in between choices you can’t come to a conclusion, and just freeze, unable to decide. Afraid of making the wrong decision.
Well, I’m here to tell you… not making a choice, is a choice.
The world keeps turning, despite your perceived inaction. I say perceived because by not moving forward, you are making a choice – instead of owning your own steps though, you’re just staying on whatever course you happen to already be on. In not wanting to make a decision, you are deciding to stay in your default state, whatever comfort zone you happen to be in.
If you get to a fork in the road, and there’s two paths, make a choice to move forward, boldly, down one. Trip and stumble along the way, but fight your way through, going for what you want. Make mistakes, but don’t sit too long at the fork wondering about the opportunity cost of one over the other – because there’s also an opportunity cost of just sitting there, frozen.
Life is going to be a battle, whether you’re sitting at the fork in the road or moving forward. But only in moving forward do we own our path. Don’t kid yourself and think you’re stalling between two choices – you may have already made the third choice, to let life happen to you instead of captaining your own destiny.
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”
Henry David Thoreau
