Decision

The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
Maimonides

It is so easy to be afraid of making the wrong decision. What if other people laugh at my mistake? What if I lose a lot of money over it? We agonize over all the things that could go wrong if we made a bad decision. We try to figure out "What if ... and what is my plan B" but the truth is that we could never know everything that could possibly go wrong, let alone how to deal with it before it's even happened. And what if nothing went wrong? What if our decision was actually the right one? All that time and energy spent worrying would have been wasted going nowhere, instead of going into thinking about how to get started on our journey.

What's the worst that could happen if we made the wrong decision. The worst thing is that we failed to learn valuable lessons from it about what to do next time. But that is always something under our control. And sometimes what was the wrong decision from one point of view turns out to be the right decision from another. For instance, you might go to school for several years and then realize you didn't want to major in this subject after all and wasted all that time and money, but during those years you may have met your soul mate or important work contacts for what you really wanted to do.

The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision. If you never make a clear decision you are always fearful of a future that is out of your control. You never know what is going to happen, because you haven't decided what is going to happen. And you become unclear about who you are and what it is that you really want and need, a wishy-washy person. If you make a lot of clear decisions, you will get better at it, and even if you make the wrong one you can benefit from the lessons it will give you about how to improve for next time.

Practise making clear decisions about even the smallest things and then work up to the more important things. You'll feel a lot better about yourself, and about your future.