A wrong turn costs ten minutes. Idling at the intersection forever costs the whole trip.
RESILIENCE
RESILIENCE
The cost of a bad decision is usually visible and finite; the cost of not deciding is invisible and unbounded. Waiting feels responsible because nothing has gone wrong yet, and meanwhile the options quietly expire and the situation decides for you. Most reversible mistakes are cheaper than the delay spent avoiding them.
For the next thing you are stuck on, ask whether it can be undone. If it can, choose within the hour and correct later if you were wrong. Save the long deliberation for the decisions that genuinely cannot be taken back.
Which decision have you been idling on for months?
Free, with nothing to buy inside it.