Our best decisions are not always the ones we thought through the most.
Sometimes, they are the ones we simply started.
No spreadsheet.
No exhaustive list of possibilities.
No careful rehearsal of every imaginable outcome.
We just began.
In hindsight, we may dress them up as deliberate. We may
find reasons for why they made sense, construct a neat little story around the
decision and convince ourselves that we knew exactly what we were doing.
Sometimes, we did not.
Sometimes, we jumped.
Without looking.
And somehow, we landed.
There is something uncomfortable about admitting this
because we have been taught to celebrate the carefully considered decision.
Think. Analyse. Evaluate. Consider the consequences. Then act.
And rightly so.
But there is a point where thinking stops being preparation
and becomes postponement.
We keep examining the door because we are afraid of what
might be on the other side.
We call it wisdom.
Sometimes, it is simply fear wearing spectacles.
There are decisions that require counsel, patience and
careful thought. There are consequences that deserve to be considered before we
move.
But there are also moments when we already know enough.
Not everything.
Just enough.
Enough to take the first step.
Enough to begin.
And perhaps that is the distinction we sometimes miss.
A decision does not always become wise because we thought
about it for a long time.
Sometimes, it becomes wise because we were willing to move,
learn, adjust and keep going.
The road itself can become part of the answer.
Some of the best things in our lives may never have survived
the interrogation we subject our possibilities to.
They survived because, at some point, we stopped asking what
if?
And started asking,
What happens if I try?
Maybe courage is not always the absence of uncertainty.
Perhaps it is simply the willingness to move with incomplete
information at times.
To jump.
To discover that the ground is there.
Or, if it is not, to learn how to build wings on the way
down.
Nugget
Not every good decision arrives fully reasoned.
Some decisions become good because we had the courage to
begin before we had all the answers.
“A decision does not always become wise because we thought about it for a long time.”
ReplyDeleteThis might be the wisest thing I’ve read today. Sometimes, we overestimate our ability to make the “right” decision and forget that we are human, working with limited information and an unpredictable future.
It doesn’t mean we should be reckless or stop thinking things through. But at some point, we have to be courageous enough to take a step with what we know, even when we’re not sure how things will turn out. Because how do we ever find out if we spend 30 days and 30 nights thinking about it? 😂
Sometimes, the only way to get more information is to move.
We cheat ourselves out of so much life when we become so afraid of making the wrong decision that we never make one at all.
So, at some point… just do it. Like Nike ✔️🤣
Just do it!!!
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