All important decisions are made in the space of 7 breaths

Sometimes you just need to act.

Time to shamelessly quote movie dialogue. Supposedly this is an old Japanese saying – and there is a nice grain of truth to it.

Think about some of the major decisions you have made in life. Think of things like accepting a new job, or quitting a job. How about whether to buy a house or not, or to make a long term commitment to your partner. If you think back you may understand this saying. I’ll bet you did things because they seemed right and you committed to the decision. Likewise, I bet there are a lot of situations where you knew that something wasn’t right and made a snap judgement not to spend any further time on it.

Part of this comes from temperament, some from your willingness to take on new situations, and a lot comes from your life experience.

With experience comes an understanding of the importance of things. As a new business owner you will be go through the same learning curve. A lot of things are new to you and seem important. You don’t want to make a mistake, so you spend time on every decision.

You need to go through this learning curve, and this is the reason I advocate starting a business to learn how to do business.

Also, a warning shot to all of those you with a university education – the long term study results are clear. The more university level education you have the longer will take to make a decision.