Is a decision. It’s OK if it’s close. We do it all the time.
It’s the thing you say you’ll do, but when it comes time to do it or go or attend or meet, you’d really rather not. You’d rather stay home. If you could, you’d cancel. You’d like to have an excuse. Well, not totally. Part of you really does want to go and that’s the part of you that said you would.
But when it comes time to do it you really don’t feel like it.
This is normal. Did you know that often the people who are presenting or performing or meeting with you feel the same way? A big part of them doesn’t want to do it, either. They feel just like you do.
But you know what happens: After you do it – attend, meet, perform; whatever it is – you’re glad you did. You experienced something or engaged someone or something in a way that was necessary or beneficial. You did it because the reason you said yes, matters.
The 49 is heavy, But not as heavy as the 51. Yet the 49 doesn’t go away just because 51 is heavier. You still have ‘all these reasons’ against the thing. It doesn’t feel right. Inside, you want more margin.
Presidents are elected with a 51-49 majority all the time and they’re just as much President as they would be if it was 100-0, But it’s NEVER 100-0. Every choice has for’s and against’s. If you’re going to decide based on the existence of reasons, you’ll always be able to decide any way you want, because there’s always reasons for any decision, either way.
Which has more, or better, reasons?
It’s easy to think of reasons you don’t want to do something – they’re always there. That’s what you feel when the time comes to do it. But the reason you do it anyway is because you committed to it, and the reason you committed is at the time you knew the potential benefit. And that hasn’t changed. What’s changed is how you feel. And how you feel will change again after you do it.
Good things happen when you do it. You rarely regret it.
You rarely regret it when you DON’T, too, because you usually don’t know what you missed. You live in blissful ignorance. But rarely does something necessary or beneficial happen when you “don’t.”
You just never know it didn’t.