You have options. But too many possibilities create paralysis.
Too many options is a comfortable problem. Choosing one would make you responsible for it.
You have options at work, and the options are doing the deciding by never being narrowed. Possibility feels like progress. It is not.
Which of your options would you drop if you had to keep only two?
Drop the rest today, in writing, and choose between what remains this week.
Every money plan sounds good in your head. That is because none of them has met a bank statement yet.
Which plan do you keep describing but have never costed?
Cost one of them tonight, with real numbers, and let it be ugly.
You want everything from this, and you are not sure what you want first. The wanting is vivid. The asking is vague.
If you could ask them for one thing, what would it be?
Ask for that one thing this week, clearly.
You are choosing between imagined outcomes. Every one of them is a fantasy, including the sensible one.
What do you actually know about each option, as opposed to what you picture?
Write the known facts for each in three lines today. Decide from those.
You have many versions of who you could become and you are trying them on instead of being one of them.
Which version would you be embarrassed to admit you want most?
Take one step toward that one today.
The ideas are all good and none of them is made. Choosing one feels like killing the others. It is the only way any survives.
Which idea keeps coming back when you are not trying to think of ideas?
Start that one today and put the rest in a list you do not open for a month.