Are you waiting to pull the trigger on a decision waiting for perfect clarity?

What if the thing holding you back isn’t perfection… but fear?

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if every decision were easy?
A no-brainer.
Barely a blip on our consciousness.

Perhaps with perfect clarity we could make decisions in seconds instead of ruminating for hours, days, or even longer.

I remember as a high school senior trying to decide whether to ask someone to the prom.

While I hesitated under the guise of “thinking it through,” someone else asked first and I lost the opportunity.

Fear disguised itself as caution.

The decision itself was not the difficult part.

Summoning the courage to overcome the fear of rejection was my downfall.

Leaders often do the exact same thing.

We want certainty.
We want guarantees.
We want to know how the story ends before we commit to action.

Unfortunately life does not work that way.

None of us can fully control external factors, changing conditions, or the reactions of other people.

One of my favorite lines from Frozen 2 is:

“All one can do is the next right thing.”

That is leadership.

Once we overcome the inertia of waiting for the perfect plan, momentum begins to build and the vision often becomes clearer.

We adjust.
We adapt.
We recalibrate when curveballs inevitably come our way.

But when we remain indecisive, the decision is often made for us — and usually not in the manner we would have preferred.

Just ask high school Kevin standing at home on prom night.

It is often said that perfect is the enemy of good and done.

Many times we can achieve 80% of the result with 20% of the effort simply by getting started.

What decision or plan do you already know you should move forward on but are delaying while waiting for certainty?

Where might 20 seconds of courage create positive momentum in your life?

Courage is not the absence of fear.

It is the willingness to move forward despite it.