Indecision preserves options while consuming the time needed to use them.

RESILIENCE

WHAT THIS MEANS

Keeping options open feels like keeping value, and up to a point it does. Beyond that point, the time you needed to actually pursue any of them is being spent on preserving the ability to choose. You end up owning a wide set of possibilities and no capacity to use them.

Ask of each option you are holding whether you are actively preparing to take it or merely refusing to let it go. Release the second kind. Optionality that is never exercised is just an expensive way of not acting.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

How long have you been keeping your options open?

MORE IN CHOICE & CONSEQUENCE

Free, with nothing to buy inside it.