It took me years to realize what the toughest thing was to decide.

The answer is: Just making a decision. When are you ready to cross over the line and say: “Okay, I’ve made a decision.” You may think it’s easy but just try it.

Decisions come in many sizes. It’s the little ones that give you the most trouble.

For years, I tried to decide about something. I took several paths before actually making it. Before I did, I thought about it long and hard and spent lots of money dancing around the moment before I finally could make that decision.

When I finally made it. I realized it could have been a lot easier if I hadn’t had so many options to choose from. That’s why a decision – on anything – is so tough. It’s because of having too many options from which to choose. (“Not my fault, it’s the options!“)

If you have the luxury of not having much to choose from, that is a blessing in disguise. You don’t have to weigh in, figure out, sort through, try and fail before you realize, the answer is usually in front of you all along. You just find it hard to pick the right one.

It’s the distractions along the way that grab your attention and make you work hard to figure something out.

I don’t really have a magic formula for getting to the final decision. Sometimes the only way to get there is to try all roads, walk all paths until you realize which one is right for you.

By that time, you may already be there – at the right decision. Then look back at all the ways you had to go to get there. Was it fun walking all those pathways? Rewarding? Painful? Expensive? You may never know if you could have avoided some of those negatives because you had to try all ways to find the right path for you. But when you do, you’ll know you made the right decision. Because you tried all the other ways and found those ways were not the answer.

So, when you finally make the right decision, you will recognize it by the way it feels. Kind of like you are finally “home.”