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Stop trying to make the “right” decision and do this instead
You can get better at making decisions, just not how you’ve been taught.
This article is cross-posted from my weekly newsletter, The Sunday Soother, a newsletter about clarity, intention, and useful tips for creating more meaning in your life that goes out every Sunday morning. Subscribe here. I am also a coach who works with sensitive people so they can stop second-guessing, make decisions confidently and live the life they’ve always dreamed of. You can learn more about working with me here.
Happy Sunday, Soothers. In my own personal work, and that of my clients, I naturally deal with a lot of black and white thinking. A lot of perfectionism. A lot of fear around getting things “right.” Making the “best” decision.
This is one of the ways in which we’re taught to approach life, goals, making decisions, progress, moving forward.
And rarely do I deem something “wrong” or “right”, because there’s about a billion subtleties to any situation in life, but I am going to go there here:
Trying to figure out the “right” decision is 100% the wrong approach.
When people try to figure out the “right” way to move forward, that is the thing that keeps them stuck. I see clients get…
