Your Weekly Tool: No Decision Is A Decision

36. No decision is a decision.

Why do people avoid decisions?  Are you a person that does this?  Most likely you avoid making decisions because you fear that you might make the wrong one.  But making the decision to not make a decision means you actually made one!  If you can choose between two roads and you choose to stay put, don’t you see how that allows you to get nowhere?  It’s almost worse than saying “someday.”  At least with someday you would be making a choice.  Don’t be afraid of wrong decisions.  A wrong decision can be corrected, a zero decision cannot.  As I’m sure you have learned by now from reading this book, it is the wrong decisions we make that help us grow and steer us to the right path in making the correct decision.

Also, guess what?  There is the possibility that the choice you make might be the right one.  When making decisions, all you are doing is building.  When you don’t make a choice on what you want to do with a particular aspect of the house, nothing gets built.  This is no different with your life.  You need to make choices to build.  The way to get the most out of this Tool is when you make a decision, you go into it full strength.  Almost as bad as not making a decision is making a decision and then half-assing it.  When you make a choice, you go all in.  At least if it is the right decision, you made the most of it, and if it is the wrong one, you know what needs to be repaired.

Lastly, when you make decisions, don’t be afraid to go with your gut.  Even though we’re not totally sure why we have this feeling, we do.  I would say in my experiences your gut feeling is right more than it is wrong.  Once you lose the fear of making the wrong decision, things will happen.  They will happen because making decisions is a large part of building your life and hitting your goals.  What is for sure is that no decision is a decision and no decision equals no growing.