Make a Decision ONCE

Mental Energy Saving Tip #797: Make a Decision ONCE

“Waiting for perfect is never as smart as making progress.”

– Seth Godin

Greetings from my little writing hobbit hole to wherever you happen to be at the moment. Wherever you are, I hope you are happy, safe & healthy.

I am taking a page from one of my favourite bloggers & podcasters, Seth Godin, and keeping today’s blog super short and succinct.

My message — a tip I gleaned from one of Seth Godin’s podcasts (though for the life of me, I couldn’t tell you which one, nor could I find the exact quote on-line) — is this: if you make a decision to say, do a certain task tomorrow (or not do something), you only need to make that decision ONCE.

Then when tomorrow comes and perhaps you find yourself waffling with excuses such as: “I don’t feel like doing that now” or “I don’t think this is the best time” or “I am going to put that off again until tomorrow,” or “the toilet needs cleaning” etc, etc, all you have to do is laugh at yourself (nice try, self!), hunker down and get ‘er done.

Why? Because you ALREADY MADE THE DECISION. You made a promise to yourself. You made a commitment. You do not need to waste a single ounce of mental…