How do you know what decision you should take? What is a right, and wrong decision? The other day I read a quote from Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra that really reasoned with me.
There is more intelligence in your body than in your wisdom
In business, and personal life clouded thinking occur frequently. You most likely have been, or are in doubt of many things. “Should I finally take this step?”, “Should I go this way, or another?”, “What would my peers think with this decision?”, “Have I done the right decision in the first place?“, “I feel lazy, why?“
All these thoughts disappears in an instant when you are faced with the hard reality. Like the body command your thinking (feeling pain/pleasure will make all your thinking irrelevant), the reality forces your decisions. Many larger businesses have become numb to this by softening their edges, making them much slower in the process. But smaller businesses know it all too well, how decisions need to be taken as soon as the reality forces you to take them.
Stop worrying what decision you need to make. Instead seek the wisdom of reality, the hidden wisdom inside you. Rationalization is very easy, but reality forces you to accept the actual situation, instead of the situation you would prefer to be in.
You need to take the decisions that reality forces you to take, not the decisions your rationalization tells you should take.
Reality cuts through all the clutter, and show you exactly what needs to be taken care of. You need to look at the hard facts of your business or personal life, and the necessary decision will materialize. Of course it can still be a difficult decision, but you will be forced to accept the situation, and then you will know what needs to be done!
I will end with the full quote from Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra describing how the body supersede thinking.
Behind your thoughts and feelings, my brother, there stands a mighty commander, an unknown wise man— he is called Self. He lives in your body, he is your body. There is more reason in your body than in your best wisdom. And who knows to what end your body requires precisely this your best wisdom?
Your Self laughs at your ego and its proud leaps. "What are these leaps and flights of fancy to me?" it says to itself. "A detour to my purpose. I am the leading reins of the I and the prompter of its conceptions."
The Self says to the I: "Feel pain here!" And then it suffers and reflects on how it might suffer no more— and this is the very purpose for which it is meant to think. The Self says to the ego: "Feel pleasure here!" Then it is happy and relects on how it might be happy again— and this is the very purpose for which it is meant to think.
Source: Lexido
Seek the wisdom in your reality, instead of rationalising!