Sep 8, 2026 · 29 min · 13 segments
Have you ever found yourself waiting until all your ducks are lined up before making a decision? The money, the time, the confidence, the perfect plan… and somehow, the perfect moment never quite…
Today I want to talk about something that I think has the potential to change so much in our lives.
And that is the power of making a decision.
And I was reminded of this in the episodes that I did with Jana.
Beautiful episode by the way.
Because I think so often we sit there waiting, waiting and stuck, waiting until we've got all of our ducks lined up, waiting until we've got the money or the time, the confidence, the perfect plan, the kids are a bit older, work settles down, whatever it might be.
And look, we tell ourselves, once I've got that all sorted, then I'll make the decision, then I'll do the thing, then I'll get the thing that I want.
But I think in so many situations, we actually have got that the wrong way around.
And we trip ourselves up and we keep ourselves stuck because of it.
Sometimes, more often than not, personally, I believe, we need to make the decision first and then we find our way.
Now, I'm not talking about making reckless decisions or not doing your due diligence.
Of course, there are things that we need to think through, particularly when there are significant consequences.
But I think there's a really big difference between being prepared and waiting for a certain level of certainty that simply doesn't exist.
And I know this because I have lived and breathed it and still do in business, in training, in parenting, in my own house.
There have been so many times, I could give you a list as long as my arm, so many times I've made a decision without having the whole path mapped out.
Hello, PhD.
Yes, that required a bit of thought, but I can promise you I didn't have the entire four years it was going to take all planned out, mapped out.
Same when my PhD supervisor said when I was going to write a book, no, no, I think you need to plan out 10 years and the books that you're going to do one a year for 10 years.
Now I did do that.
I did do the plan, but that decision, that decision to do that, I didn't have everything else planned out.
And sometimes I've got things wrong, really wrong.
And quite often I've got a lot of things wrong.
But that's the thing.
Those mistakes haven't necessarily meant I made the wrong decision.
They've often been the thing that taught me how to move forward.
And that's what we get affirmatively.
Today I want to talk about something that I think has the potential to change so much in our lives.
And that is the power of making a decision.
And I was reminded of this in the episodes that I did with Jana.
Beautiful episode by the way.
Because I think so often we sit there waiting, waiting and stuck, waiting until we've got all of our ducks lined up, waiting until we've got the money or the time, the confidence, the perfect plan, the kids are a bit older, work settles down, whatever it might be.
And look, we tell ourselves, once I've got that all sorted, then I'll make the decision, then I'll do the thing, then I'll get the thing that I want.
But I think in so many situations, we actually have got that the wrong way around.
And we trip ourselves up and we keep ourselves stuck because of it.
Sometimes, more often than not, personally, I believe, we need to make the decision first and then we find our way.
Now, I'm not talking about making reckless decisions or not doing your due diligence.
Of course, there are things that we need to think through, particularly when there are significant consequences.
But I think there's a really big difference between being prepared and waiting for a certain level of certainty that simply doesn't exist.
And I know this because I have lived and breathed it and still do in business, in training, in parenting, in my own house.
There have been so many times, I could give you a list as long as my arm, so many times I've made a decision without having the whole path mapped out.
Hello, PhD.
Yes, that required a bit of thought, but I can promise you I didn't have the entire four years it was going to take all planned out, mapped out.
Same when my PhD supervisor said when I was going to write a book, no, no, I think you need to plan out 10 years and the books that you're going to do one a year for 10 years.
Now I did do that.
I did do the plan, but that decision, that decision to do that, I didn't have everything else planned out.
And sometimes I've got things wrong, really wrong.
And quite often I've got a lot of things wrong.
But that's the thing.
Those mistakes haven't necessarily meant I made the wrong decision.
They've often been the thing that taught me how to move forward.
And that's what we get affirmatively.
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