Your desire to make the best choice in this moment, prevents you from progressing in whatever you’re trying to achieve.
There’s a fear that comes with big goals – making mistakes and wrong decisions. This fear cannot prevent you from taking action. If you find yourself staling, trying to make the perfect next move, think about this question:
What is the perfect chess move?
There isn’t one – well, only in a few cases when the choice is obvious. In the majority of cases though, there are many moves a player can make. The only way to determine how good the move was is to see how the game progresses. It’s the same with your self improvement and goals.
Progress brings the need to make choices, adapt, and drop old ways. There will often be times when we don’t know which direction to go in. We know what we’re doing now isn’t adequate, we’re ready for more, or we learn something new. When these moments arise, we cannot let the desire to make the perfect move prevent us from progressing.
Sometimes you will make the perfect chess (life) move, but typically there isn’t a perfect one. There’s no way to know in that moment, so all you can do is use your best judgement and see how it plays out. Make the decision you believe is best in that moment, live with it and see if it helps, if it doesn’t just try something else.
There’s no harm in making the wrong choice as long as you’re willing to ask yourself what you’ve learned then improve from there. You’re always going to have to make choices and improve methods if you want to grow and prevent stagnation. So the next time you have to make a move, weigh your options, choose the one that feels best or makes the most sense, then let life play out.
After that, rinse and repeat.
January 20, 2023
