Life is full of decisions and this week has definitely been a week full of them here at Agenda Red.
Following over a year of research, testing, more research, further training, consultation, preparation and development the Agenda Red blog is finally online.
The very original ideas and concepts for Agenda Red happen to be the ideas finally being acted upon a year later. So what happened?
Indecision
Goethe, the famous 19th century Poet, Novelist, and Scientist, once said,
“Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days. What you can do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it.”
The last week has been agonising and I can’t help but feel that I have been through some kind of creative child birth over the last weekend where the ideas have been growing and building having finally got to the point where I just had to release or I would have, literally, gone crazy. I experience this when writing music so I should have seen it coming.
It was this post on Daring Adventure that nudged me into the realisation that I just needed to make a decision.
Having finally decided to decide and accepted that what I have got is good enough to get going, along with the realisation that the resources and material I already have are more than enough fuel; published ideas can always be changed or developed.
Action
The key lesson in the fog of ‘what if’ was to take action: Make a decision based upon what information is available and what feels right at the time. The danger of waiting too long is that you can meander off-course and get caught up in trying to justify or re-define your original intention and spending a lot of (wasted) time deciding whether to decide.
They must have suffered a great deal from indecision in the 19th century as a Philosopher and Author, Thomas Carlyle, also said,
“Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.”
It’s a case of choosing the best option not necessarily the perfect plan.
For Agenda Red it was less what and more a case of how at the root of all the indecision.
Once a decision was made (based on gut feeling) not only was a massive sense of progress and relief experienced yet I was surprised to find that nobody had died in the process and, less surprisingly, I can now move on.
What’s your experience with decision making?
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