Coaching practices for How to Get Over Decision Paralysis

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• I agonize for days over tiny choices I could undo in a second, then rush the big ones I can’t take back
• I’m agonizing over this choice like it’s carved in stone and I can never come back from it, paralyzed by a downside that has me frozen
• I’ve got a few options on the table but I keep drifting toward whichever one scares me least instead of whichever would actually fix things
• I keep opening more tabs and adding more contenders thinking it’ll help me decide, and instead I’m juggling twenty things I can’t hold in my head at once and I’ve made the whole thing impossible.
• I deliberately leave my decisions open so I can back out later, thinking that protects me

Practices that may help

1. Classify decisions by reversibility and stakes
   Sort decisions into low-stakes/high-stakes and reversible/irreversible before deciding.
   Decision Journaling: Learning to Decide Better Over Time
2. Check reversibility before you fear the downside
   Most decisions are reversible; reserve maximum caution for the few that aren’t.
   The Regret-Minimization Framework
3. Evaluate solutions against costs, benefits, and fit
   Rate each solution on likelihood of success, personal costs, and fit with your values.
   Problem-Solving Therapy, Made Practical
4. Pre-commit to a hard option limit
   Decide in advance how many options you will consider — then stick to that number.
   Choice Overload, Made Practical
5. Treat your decision as more final than it is
   Mentally close off the "undo" option to stop rumination and increase satisfaction.
   Choice Overload, Made Practical
6. Edit your choice environment upstream
   Remove options before the decision moment so the problem never arises.
   Choice Overload, Made Practical
7. Move fast on two-way doors
   On reversible decisions, decide with 70% of the information you wish you had — then adjust.
   The Two-Way Door
8. Reduce opportunity-cost thinking
   Stop calculating what every rejected option "costs" you — it amplifies regret for no gain.
   Choice Overload, Made Practical
9. Disagree and commit — reduce the decision drag of endless debate
   Decisions that are made and executed at 80% confidence are almost always better than decisions endlessly refined but never taken.
   Designing a Calm Company (Fried & Hansson)
10. Adopt satisficing instead of maximizing
    Set a "good enough" threshold before you search, then stop when you hit it.
    Choice Overload, Made Practical

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