Coaching practices for How to Resolve Decision Paralysis

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• A call I could make in a day drags out for weeks because we keep circling it waiting for everyone to fully agree
• I’ve been ping-ponging between two options in my head for weeks
• The same draining decision ambushes me over and over
• I agonize for days over tiny choices I could undo in a second, then rush the big ones I can’t take back
• I agonize over which coffee to order with the same intensity I bring to the decisions that genuinely matter, and I can’t tell which ones deserve that effort

Practices that may help

1. 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)
2. Use the journal to externalize decisions you are stuck on
   Write out both sides of a decision in full — on paper, the reasoning becomes visible and the stuckness often resolves.
   Journaling for Clarity
3. Edit your choice environment upstream
   Remove options before the decision moment so the problem never arises.
   Choice Overload, Made Practical
4. 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
5. Recognize which decisions to defer or delegate
   Not every choice deserves your cognitive best — identify which ones merit serious deliberation.
   Choice Overload, Made Practical
6. 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
7. 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
8. Resolving a decision with two competing values
   When two values both apply, use your ranked priority to resolve the tension rather than freeze.
   Values Card Sort
9. Check reversibility before you fear the downside
   Most decisions are reversible; reserve maximum caution for the few that aren’t.
   The Regret-Minimization Framework
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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