Today’s quote:
“In any moment of making a decision the best thing you can do is do the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
I tend to avoid making tough decisions if at all possible. I like it when I have an obvious/logical choice to make – but then again, who doesn’t? The toughest decision I ever made was to quit working – leaving a good, well- paying job that I liked to stay home was not the easiest decision for me; getting married, emigrating, choosing a career – all easy choices in my book. The good news is that I haven’t regretted my decision, not even once.
I agonize over some decisions, weighing the pros and cons ad nauseam. I lived with an ugly light fixture for years because I was afraid of picking the wrong one. That was until the day I realized that ANY light fixture would be an improvement over the one I had. Bit of a lightbulb moment for me…like the quote above, making a decision, doing something is way better than doing nothing.
Isn’t it funny (well not funny, sad, really) how that fear of being wrong keeps us from doing stuff?
I am petrified of choosing the wrong paint color. Now mind you, I HATE that our walls are white. But I’m more scared of the wrong color.