I Spent Months

I spent months last year trapped in a decision I couldn’t make.

Leave a role that ate 18 hours a week but provided financial security, or stay and keep the safety net?

I ran every calculation. Modelled every scenario. Played out every conversation in my head. Spoke to loads of people to get their opinion Unhelpful ruminating masquerading as ‘being thorough’ Genuine misery.

Then one day my boss and I were talking, and she said:

‘Would you like to drop down to 2 days?’

That was it.

One uncomfortable conversation I’d been avoiding, and the decision I’d been torturing myself over simply… resolved.

The gap between the months of paralysis and the 30 seconds it took to ask is embarrassing to admit.

Every principle I have about decision-making says: move fast, test, adjust.

But when it was my own security on the line, I defaulted to endless internal processing instead of one external conversation.

I use that now as a checkpoint: if I’m agonising over something in my business

I ask whether I’m actually thinking or just avoiding asking.

I spent a lot of time last year looking at what makes businesses successful.

Speed is one of them.

The industry moves fast.

We can’t afford to spend months on questions that take seconds to answer.

Think about one decision you’re umming and ahhing on.

An investment, a collaboration, a new offer, a pivot.

Decide today.

Time waits for no man.