If you can’t explain your choice in one sentence, you may not have made it yet.

Decisions you understand compress easily. If every attempt to say why comes out as a paragraph of justification, usually the real reason is one you are not comfortable saying, or there are two reasons pulling in different directions and neither has won. The long explanation is a symptom rather than depth. Clarity tends to be short.

Try writing your reason in one plain sentence, and say it out loud to an actual person if you can. If it will not fit, look for the part you are leaving out, since that is normally where the decision is stuck. Keep the sentence, because you will want it later.