There's an old saying. He who hesitates is lost. She who hesitates is lost, too. There
is no good thing that comes out of hesitation, postponement, delay. These are habits that
erode your capacity to be present and to make decisions and take responsibility for them.
You don't need more time most of the time. You do not need to tell yourself you've got
to mull something and sit on it. If it feels like a good decision, here's what research
shows. You are better off taking action and deciding now. They did an experiment that
was as follows. They brought in people, and they gave them a choice to make under two
conditions. The first condition was they got six choices to choose from because people
like, or so they presume, lots of opportunities to choose. They like many choices. They don't
want to be forced and coerced to choose just between a couple of things, and everybody
kind of agrees there's a general idea that they ought to have time to think it over and
mull it and not make some quick decision. So they brought people in, and they gave them
six choices, and they gave them a full week to decide. Then they brought in another group
of people, and they told them, look, you get two choices, and you've got to decide now
what you want. Then what they did was do a follow-up with both groups, and they had a
measure of finding out how much they enjoyed the choice they made. To a percent, the people
who had to decide then and there and had to decide between just two choices liked their
decision. They were much more satisfied with it. The people who had six choices and five
days or a week to decide, they more or less hated their decision. It's like the process
of weighing that many things sort of wore them down because it kind of gets complicated,
and also they were looking into the bad side of everything. Don't get caught in delaying
and hesitating on things that you know you can do. All you're doing is giving yourself
grief, and you're delaying and postponing, which is a bad habit. If there's an action
to take, take it. People who are successful are quick responders and early adopters. They
decide now, and they go for it. They hear it. They know it. And they act. You need to
practice that. You need to practice those things that successful people do because it's
going to give you a leg up on all of this hesitation, delay, and postponement. This
is why stuff accumulates around you and bears in on you, and why you're behind because you
think you need time to do things you don't need any time for at all. In fact, you're
going to subtract from the effect. So get this right. Start making decisions in the
moment and on the fly, and sure. You're going to be a little bit scared. You're going to
think, well, the convention is, and I've always done it this way, and oh, I'm that kind of
person. I always sleep on it. Research shows that doesn't add anything. In fact, it subtracts.
It actually adds grief and subtracts from your pleasure. Bear this in mind, the next
time you've got to do something, don't postpone. Don't delay. Act. Since you're a high achiever
you may know about this. High achievers often hit a wall. They're going along, they're having
one success after another and then suddenly, something happens and they grind to a halt.
And it's confusing because they're not sure what it is they've done wrong if anything.
They just know that they're not moving anymore the way they're used to moving. The way they
have moved in the past. If you've run into like what seems like a ceiling over you and
you're kind of in a fog and you're mystified by what's getting in your way, you can even
kind of slide into a swirl of doubts and wonder if you ever really achieved anything significant
at all and whether any of your amazing achievements you have done were anything but kind of fronting
or a little bit of a fraud. That is really negative and pernicious and it doesn't have
to be that way. I want you to go get a free report from me. Go to DrKenChristian.com/Breakthrough
and receive from me this free report with action steps that are going to tell you exactly
what to do now to get you going.