How To Confidently Make A Decision

Make a choice, have an experience, make a decision. In that order.

A choice is a selection of an option, and a decision is a more deliberate and thoughtful process with different considerations. We can’t know what to decide on if we don’t have enough information, which we gather through experience. We can only experience something once we choose to, so therefore choice and decision are two different things.

Let’s say you choose to go somewhere - like a new restaurant. Once you arrive and have the experience of the restaurant (read the menu, see the environment, survey if there’s a wait for a table or no wait), you have more information to make a decision: do I want to stay here and eat, or go somewhere else? Once you’ve experience the choice, you will feel your decision in your body. 

The energy behind “choice” and “decision” is very different. You made the choice to be in the restaurant but your experience informed if you liked it or not, or felt like staying or going. 

So many of us get feel paralyzed when takes with making a choice because we treat it as if we’re locking into a decision and that’s hard to make with very little or no information. Give yourself a break by remembering that you can make a choice, see what happens, then decide later. You can always make a different choice at a later time.