Do you find your indecision is holding your career from moving forward? Are you crippling your job search and professional career goals by your inability to decide?
The inability to make personal or career decisions is often embedded in another underlying fear.
Sometimes, we may be unable to decide simply because we lack the resources, research, or information. More often, it is due to our fears and uncertainties.
For instance, you may feel that you truly don’t know what to do or how to move forward. Combine this with not knowing who to ask and fear of making the wrong decision, and you will have immovability.
You may also lack the self-assurance to make the decision or suffer from low self-worth or self-esteem, which results in always seeking others’ opinions on what to do.
Indecision Will Halt Your Career and Job Search
These symptoms of indecision cause huge problems in your job search and personal and professional life. When “indecision” takes place, it stops career advancement. Acts of indecision kill the spirit and slowly drain the desire to get resourceful.
If you find it hard to decide on something, it may be holding you back from completing one or several key projects in your professional or personal life. To make a decision, you need to be clear about what action is required to move forward. When you’re struggling to decide, chances are you lack enough information to make a confident choice.
How to Tackle Indecision
The first thing you need to do is get educated on the problems holding you back.
Ask yourself, ” What do I need to do to gain the information needed to make the decision?” Often, just asking this question will unlock the specific action that you need to take. However, sometimes the information needs to be gained from you personally, through thought and deliberation. If this is the case, you need to decide how long you will give yourself to think about it—and then commit to your deadline.
Write the deadline down in your calendar so you have to answer to yourself. This will hold you accountable for your decisions, helping you move forward in your projects.
Remember, if you find yourself stuck with the difficulty of making decisions, figure out what decisions you are avoiding, what information you need to decide, and where you can start to get it. Don’t hold yourself or your career back; take the necessary steps to make decisions and complete those essential projects.
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