Slow Decision Making and Risk AvoidanceIf you are a person who finds pain in decision-making, your life is probably full of clutter. Much like a triage unit has to quickly decide with medical patient's care is most important, in order to avoid living in clutter, you must also be able to quickly decide what things in your life are actually important and what you can easily live without.
Some personality types are simply slower to make decisions than others, and if you are one of this type, it is even more crucial that you learn to reduce the amount of inflow clutter so that you have fewer things to decide about.
The other type of slow decision maker is a person who is risk averse. If you have a low tolerance for risk, you fear committing to a decision for fear that it might be the wrong one. So you delay the decision until you can't delay it anymore or until the decision gets made for you by someone else or by circumstances.
For example, you may delay making a decision about whether to keep or throw out an old pair of jeans. You know you haven't worn them in more than a year, and they are too small for you, however, you fear throwing them out because you have convinced yourself on some level that you might need them again.
So your fear of making a bad decision is what keeps you from making ANY decision. And the jeans stay in your life for another year, taking up space, collecting dust and moths, and making you feel cluttered and guilty.
You can easily see how avoiding the risk of making a bad decision can keep you in clutter. The only way to remedy this situation is to simply get into action in the area that scares you. Begin making decisions, and experiencing the liberation of decluttering.
Along with this liberation, you will also experience a lack of negative consequences from you decision-making. This will start a positive cycle in which you will make a decision and the positive results of that decision will spur you on to more confident decision-making and the cycle repeats itself, and you will find that you are able to make decisions faster and easier.
