Decisions

# Chapter 185

A decision is looming large on the short horizon. And like happens many times, there seems to be a paralysis in pulling the trigger as my mind endlessly debates the pros and cons. Every day I delay raises the cost if I follow through and that in and of itself is a growing con. There are so many moments like this in life and in the clarity of the aftermath, we find ourselves wondering why we did not make the decision and we sit there with decision regret. And decision regret can have a higher price than the struggle to decide in the first place. Yes I am doing decision analysis this morning.

These leisure decisions are the worse. Required decisions where all you have to decide are the details are relatively easy - you have to go to work and all you have to decide is what you are wearing. Leisure decisions are opportunities that come along and they generally carry a high price as well as the great opportunity. These leisure decisions have a heavy tradeoff element - you get to do something and plus you don’t get to do this other thing. You get this one opportunity that you won’t get again in this way, and if you don’t decide to do it, you don’t know what you would have experienced and enjoyed and remembered for the rest of your life. If you don’t decide, then you can predict what you get instead. The known for the unknown, the standard outcome versus the opportunity. You are not getting any younger, make the decision.