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So many people just spend their whole lives on the fence. Whatever it is that they need to decide, they go back and forth…. 50/50. One choice will be right. One will be wrong.

But if you stay on the fence, 50/50, whatever you wanna call it, you will be forever stuck in no man’s land. You’ll never get out of it.

The truth is, if you make a decision and just move forward, you’re not likely to look back in 5 years at that single decision and tell yourself that you made the wrong one. (I mean, unless it’s a blatantly stupid decision).

So if you’re unhappy, dissatisfied, angry, overweight, annoyed… whatever it is, don’t dwell on it!

Make a decision and move on. Your friends and family don’t want to hear you complaining about it every day. And I am SUPER guilty of this! I will go to the same friend and complain about the same thing over and over and over…

And they finally get tired of listening to it.

Maybe you hate your job. Maybe you’re in a bad relationship or a bad marriage. Maybe it’s something positive and you have the chance of a lifetime and you’re somehow finding a way to talk yourself out of it. Because you’re scared. You’re unsure. You don’t know what will happen.

Well that’s life!  Life is very much an “I don’t know what’s gonna happen” type of thing. If you spend your entire life in analysis paralysis, you’ll be stuck in no man’s land forever!

Let me tell you a story…

A really good friend of mine battles with her decision making on a daily basis. Everything from what to wear, what to eat, how to do her hair that day, what to get at Starbucks…. It’s seriously annoying to spend any time with her to be honest.

She complains about her husband, her job, her kids, her car, her weight. Again, super annoying to be around all the time.

I finally stopped her one day while she was in the middle of telling me for the 5 thousandth time why her marriage is failing and how she doesn’t know if she could possibly take it for one more second. And I stopped her. And I said NO MORE. I’m not going to listen to it anymore. Either make an effort to fix it or make an effort to end it. But you have to make a decision.

We got into a long conversation about the pros and cons of both sides, how the kids would react, etc. That turned into a discussion about her job and what needs to happen there, why she’s complacent and on and on.

When we got down to the bottom of everything, it turns out that she had been feeling insecure for quite some time. She had gained some weight since taking on a desk job a few years back and it had slowly been eating away at her ever since.

Instead of doing something about it, she blamed her kids, her husband and her job for her own inability to manage her weight. After a good cry session, we got to a place where she knew she had to do something different. She needed to take care of herself in order to save her family and her career.

She made a conscious decision that night to make the necessary changes to make her life better and get out of no man’s land.

So let’s recap…

If you’re unhappy, dissatisfied, angry, overweight or whatever it is… And you would do ANYTHING to change it; you know what? It doesn’t cost you a dime to make a change! It doesn’t cost a dime to make that decision and change your life!

You want something different? Make a decision! You want to change your situation? Make a decision! You want to change your life? All you have to do is make a decision.

So many people are capable of so much more. But they settle for average. They settle for the status quo. There is NOTHING powerful or inspiring about average!

And the scariest thing about average is regret. That’s my biggest fear. I don’t want to look back on my life and regret the decisions I never made and the risks I never took.

Don’t spend your whole life so scared to make a decision that you live a life you regret!

READ. THAT. AGAIN.

Don’t spend your whole life so scared to make a decision that you live a life you regret!

JB ❤