How to decide when you don’t know

Doing what you love is mostly decision-making.

What you do is a decision. How you do it is a decision (read: best guess). Your rates, your marketing, and how you interact or respond to your people? All decisions.

Making these decisions is one of the hardest things you’ll ever do… but not because it’s actually hard.

Because of all the time you’ll spend trying to find the answer from somebody else, second-guessing yourself, and playing out the worst case scenarios in your mind.

Making decisions is actually pretty simple.

They happen in an instant.

The entire process of doing what you love?

It's three steps.

1. Make a decision.

2. Take action immediately based on what you know right now.

3. Evaluate and learn from the actions you take, without being an asshole to yourself.

That’s it.

You don’t need a sign from the universe to decide. There’s nothing wrong with that, it just makes the decision feel bigger and more important than it actually is. The specific thing you decide to do or not do isn't as important or consequential as you think it is.

How you execute or implement your decision is important. How you talk to yourself when things don't go the way you want them to is important. Taking full responsibility for creating the impact and result you want to create, no matter what happens, is important.

Your best guess is good enough. What you do and how you do it will change a million times along the way.

This is just the beginning. You're just getting started.

Every day you change your mind, question yourself, and look for the right answer, you aren’t doing what you love. You’re not helping anybody. You’re not learning by gaining real world experience.

What you already know is enough to decide.