Are you letting the couldas, shouldas, wouldas get in the way?
As business owners we are faced with decisions to make each and every day.
From big decisions such as which email newsletter system to use or how to process credit card payments through to smaller, day to day decisions such as what to write about in today’s blog posting or should you be calling that client first or the other?
Sometimes the decisions you have to make become so big that you start to shy away from actually making the decision.
You start to weigh up your options yet again. What if that happens if you do that? What if the other happens if you don’t do that? You end up going crazy, don’t you? And, more importantly, you often stop moving forward with your business plans.
The thing is that as a business owner, the buck stops with you. And it is easy to let that buck frighten you if things where to go to wrong.
But couldas, shouldas, wouldas stop you from moving forward. And this is why its best, quite often, to just make ”a” decision rather than trying to make the “perfect” decision. You can never make the perfect decision. Perfection is not something you should be striving for and perfection is often something not achievable in business.
So if you are letting the couldas, shouldas, wouldas get in the way of starting to write that book or launch that new product or even just go to that networking event – then tell them to take a hike and just get on with it and make a step forward with a simple decision. It could be the best decision you make all year!!
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You are so right!
I’ve been thinking for ages of running Media Mastermind sessions, mulling it over, talking to trainees on my press release courses but never actually setting a date. Then I read a book by Nigel Botterill (Botty’s Rules – highly recommended), and it made the same point.
I decided to set a date and get on with it, and we’ve got the first one on 12 July.
It’s so easy to procastinate, and not to get on with things, but it’s much better to just take a decision and go for it!
Ann
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