Making decisions

Some decisions I agonise over, but to be honest I should consider myself lucky to be facing the choice: where to go on holidays this year, what to order in the restaurant, what to give my spouse for Christmas. These choices are the pleasant result of earlier decisions I made: to put aside a bit of money to blow on travel and food, to get married, to live in the place that I do. I'm happy to be making these decisions. These decisions are easy.

Other decisions are easy to put off. They seem too hard, too uncertain. Sometimes they are about things I'd rather not think about right now.

Unfortunately, options have a habit of narrowing the longer a decision is delayed. If we put off a decision long enough, the choice can be made for us by circumstances or other people.

Big decisions are easiest to make when you have enough information to be confident that your decision will be a good one; when you have time to think, reliable advice, and family and friends around to bounce ideas off.