How do you make tricky decisions?

[Holdfast]

Don't wait for the translation! Answer me now!

There has been an incident, however everything is under control.

Judging from Holdfasts previous posts, it's probably choosing between 2 suits! I mean, determining the ramifications between that would be very difficult to determine at the time of purchase!

Buy both! Wait. We have discovered a principle with wider applicability...

 

[JustKate]

How to I make a tricky decision? I ask the BBS, of course.

OK, not really. Here's what I really do: I think about it, a lot. I pray - not so much for guidance as for "Please, God, help me to not screw up." I might even do the pros and cons thing (and I am heartbroken - heartbroken - that I didn't think of the "prose and cons" pun myself). I think about it some more. I fret. I fuss.

Then I try to stop thinking about it for a while.

The next time I think about it, I am usually pretty sure what the correct choice is.

Then, of course, there is an additional twist: What if the correct choice isn't my favorite choice? Because sometimes the real dilemma isn't "What should I do?" It's "Should I do the thing I really want to do or should I do the thing I am pretty sure I ought to do?"

 

[Tim]

Don't wait for the translation! Answer me now!

There has been an incident, however everything is under control.

An incident?!

 

[Zulu Romeo]

There has been an incident, however everything is under control.

I wonder if there was a certain Swan involved?

 

[Holdfast]

The world is a weird sort of place around Christmas. All sort of unusual synchronicities seem to happen this time of year... today was especially lol-some in the coincidence category; just goes to show time is sometimes the best answer to difficult decisions!

 

[Mr Awe]

^^ Delay was #2 on my list!

 

[Holdfast]

^^ Delay was #2 on my list!

I keep meaning to say thank you, but putting it off...

 

[Tim]

Please tell me the decision wasn't about the bloody pocket-square-cravat and instead involved DangerMouse in some nefarious way.

 

[JustKate]

The world is a weird sort of place around Christmas. All sort of unusual synchronicities seem to happen this time of year... today was especially lol-some in the coincidence category; just goes to show time is sometimes the best answer to difficult decisions!

Now you're just tormenting us.

 

[PKTrekGirl]

I worry, fret and procrastinate in a feeble attempt to defer the decision for as long as I can. Then I wait for the situation to worsen because of my indecision and I worry about that.

You have no idea how familiar this methodology sounds to me. Oh well, it's good to know I am not alone, anyway.