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How do I choose between two good options?
How do I choose between two good options?
If both options are acceptable, choose the one you can review on a date you write down. The search for a perfect signal is often fear of regretting a decent life.
What may actually be happening
You are treating a reversible choice as if a hidden fact will absolve you. More opinions will mostly return your own anxiety in someone else's voice.
Look at it from both sides
Option A may cost status. Option B may cost ease. Name the cost you are willing to pay for six months, not the identity you hope to become.
What you can do
List three facts that would still be true in a year. Pick. Put a review date on a calendar. Until that date, stop reopening the choice unless a new fact arrives, not a new mood.
What not to do
Do not crowdsource the decision until someone else owns your regret. Do not wait for certainty the situation cannot provide.
Try this today
Write: 'I choose X until the first of next month.' Tell one person who needs to know. Then do the next ordinary task inside that choice.