This week, I was introduced to a saying by Kelly that has great depth: 

“Make a decision, even if it’s wrong”. 

Are you worried about making the wrong decision? Too many choices have you confused? Nervous about making a decision that could multiple dimensions of your life? Sometimes even minor decisions can cause you to become anxious when you start thinking about all the things that could go wrong.

It's a common thing for people to swing back and forth between the different choices they have to make. And it doesn’t matter if these choices are related to career, money, business, opportunities, or even relationships. It still confuses you on which choice is the best.

This is where multi-objective optimization may help (previous post).  Get a list for both sides of the decision.  Go through and find candidate solutions: if I do this then I must do this, so that ...  Determine a way to rank each candidate solution.  Gather some information, look at the pros and cons, consider worst and best cases, revisit, discard non-feasible solutions, and make a decision.  You may end up with a set of satisfactory solutions that don’t violate any of your constraints.  Review the Pareto set and pick one. 

Make a decision and act immediately, then adjust course if necessary.

When a decision is made, you should also act immediately, even if this just means taking some small step. If you decide to write a book, for example, you should boot up the computer and write the first line, or put the pen and paper on the desk as soon as you decide. Such immediate action trains your mind to treat your decisions as meaningful, and not just wishful thinking, and it is an important part of the whole decision making process.