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Reassurance-seeking undercuts confident decision-making

Reassurance-seeking tells your brain that the anxiety that goes along with making decisions is dangerous.

So each time you face a decision that makes you nervous, your brain will make you feel even more nervous.

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How to Be Decisive: 4 Strategies for Confident Decision-Making

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Uncertainty is a key feature of decision-making

Recognize and accept the fact that you will not be able to control and solve all uncertainty and that you don’t need to. You will be anxious about that, but it's normal.

Why we are not decisive

The main cause of our trouble with being decisive comes down to this process: cultural conditioning +negative habits.

Our unhealthy need for control

Many difficult decisions imply a degree of helplessness and lack of control.

Learning to be more decisive

This comes down to pinpointing and getting rid of the habits that increase indecisiveness.

When we're terrified of making mistakes

This happens when you don't possess the knowledge about the consequences of the mistakes in your life now.

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