The decision not to do something…is a decision.
I would say I am often late to the game with TV shows.
However, last year, while traveling with my family we started watching Emily in Paris.
There are tons of critics about this show and the entire premise. I’ll save you the critics details – I find it a great escape full of amazing shots of Paris featuring incredible fashion.
Don’t believe me? Just ask Peyton Manning, who shouted it out on SNL a few months ago.
However, I do have one hang up with the show.
It isn’t the unlikely premise about a 22-year old Marketing Executive who becomes a self proclaimed “marketing genius.”
My hang up is the main character’s inability to make a decision.
Whether it is love interests, companies to work with, or friends to spend time with…it is like she is always waiting for a better deal to come along.
It isn’t until the third season that someone finally points this out to her.
Just like Emily, you said no to the dinner date, no to the other company and no to a friend when they needed you.
But, you didn’t actually say no…your actions did.
When faced with the constant burden of trying to figure things out, we often are stuck making too many decisions…so we start to hold off on making them at all.
We let our email pile up.
We let our backlog get longer.
We struggle to improve our services.
When we push off all our decisions, our issues start to aggregate and get worse.
It’s better to make a decision and learn from it than to let the fear of making the wrong decision freeze you up.
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