Stop reopening decisions just because the alternative remained imaginable.

Once a decision is made, the alternatives do not disappear from your imagination. They stay available, always looking cleaner than the path you are actually on, because you never have to live with their problems. Reopening a settled question on that basis is not new thinking; it is comparing reality with fantasy.

Set a standard for what would justify revisiting a decision: a specific new fact, a threshold crossed, a date. Absent that, let the question stay closed even when the other option glitters. The energy saved goes into making the chosen path actually work.