If we’re talking about deciding what kind of latte I want to order from Starbucks I know I want a Grande Skinny Vanilla Latte. If you ask me the best vacation I’ve ever been on, I can tell you it was my 22nd birthday trip to Hilton Head and answer without skipping a beat.  Would I rather have a week in Vegas or a trip to Austin TX? – Austin, no question about it.

Now the other 99%  of the time I need to make a choice, it’s not so simple.  I’d like to think I have a bad case of the “indecise-y’s”.  Decisions scare me and not necessarily the “cup of coffee decisions”, but bigger decisions, the ones that affect me long term, and potentially affect others. The ones with the unpredictable outcomes and larger price tags.

So maybe I am more afraid of the unknown rather than the actual decision making process. Either way it’s caused a fair amount of stress in my life.  There is a little voice in my head that won’t let me make a final decision without the analysis of every possible outcome of every possible decision and then leaves me even more confused then when I started.

I am turning 25 next month and more and more I am faced with decisions that I once relied on my parents and more “responsible” people to make. The ones that aren’t so much about where I want to go on vacation, but more about what stocks I want to invest in and how much of a mortgage I can afford.  I accept responsibility but sometimes it scares the shit out of me (I take responsibility for using that curse word).

I’d like to get better at this part of my life.  I want to walk away confidant and satisfied with my decisions.  There has to be a better process for analyzing and answering these challenges and making solid choices, than my over thinking and constant anxiety of doing the wrong thing.

SO…who has the magic method to answering life’s questions?  I know there’s some natural born decision makers out there!

Melissa