Page of Swords

You are watching everything at work, questioning, analysing. Curiosity is good. This has tipped into looking for the flaw that lets you stay uncommitted.

What are you scrutinising at work instead of doing?

Commit to one thing this week before you have finished analysing it.

You have researched the money decision from every angle. You have not made it. Research has become the decision's replacement.

What would you need to know that you do not already know?

If the answer is nothing, decide today.

You are reading them for signs, analysing texts, decoding tone. The analysis has replaced asking.

What could you ask them directly that you have been trying to deduce?

Ask it this week, in plain words.

You are gathering information about the decision instead of getting closer to it. Every fact is another day.

What fact would actually change your mind, and does it exist?

Set a deadline today for the decision, and stop researching at it.

You are alert to everything, suspicious of most of it, and you call that being sharp. Sharp is tiring, and it is cutting things that did not need cutting.

What are you suspicious of that has never actually let you down?

Trust one thing this week without checking it.

You are critiquing the work faster than you are making it. The critic is doing overtime and the maker has gone home.

What have you analysed into paralysis?

Make for an hour today with the critic switched off. Judge tomorrow.