Why You Keep Waiting for Permission to Make Your Own Decision

You know the work. You have done the research. And you still cannot pull the trigger on the decision. In this episode, Afzal Patni breaks down why capable people freeze on decisions they are fully equipped to make, why waiting for validation quietly runs your life, and a simple practice to find your own answer.

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I want to talk about something almost every founder I meet struggle with, even the most capable ones, decisions, not big philosophical life decisions, everyday ones. The hire, the price, the direction, the conversation. You know you need to have. You have that information. You have done the research, you have plenty of genuine data in your head, plenty of different sparks of ideas in your head. You generally know the work itself, and you still cannot pull the trigger. And today I want to break down why that happens. Why smart, capable, well researched people freeze on the decisions they are completely equipped to make. And a simple practice to get unstuck. Here's the thing when you stuck on a decision, you're qualified to make the problem is almost never information. You're not missing data points at this point. If you were, you would you would go get it, you know, you would generate, go get more research done, work at opinion viewpoints done. But this is a different section which we talk about. The problem is that somewhere along the way you learn that making the wrong decision is dangerous, that you need someone to approve it first. Opinion, like I mentioned, is one thing. Validation and approval is second. That is safer to wait in itself is another thing to ask around, to seek validation, then to trust your own red and move. So you procrastinate the whole thing in itself. You call it thinking it through, you call it being careful, but underneath you are waiting, waiting for certainty that never comes, waiting for someone to tell you it is okay, waiting for guarantee that you cannot get. Usually the worst way by default through inaction. The inaction is the most bad thing that could happen to you, and because of indirect reason, these inaction always have a negative direction, and towards the end, your belief system becomes more stubborn in the sense I knew this wouldn't work, and that leads to self-negative talk as well. Now, let me reframe the whole thing for you. What is the worst that happens if you decide you are wrong? You corrected. Correct, that is it. A wrong decision caught early is just information you adjust, you move on. For example, let's say you started a business and everything is in the initial phase. For some reason, the must be multiple cue points, ad must be different, back end set uh uh checklist must be different, the settings must be different, targeting must be different, the landing page will be issued, the video in itself is message is not right, the funnel may be wrong, the information taking in must be too much. There are 10,000 checkpoints to it. Now, when something like that scenario happens in our life, also, which most of the time happens in the sense there are multiple checkpoints to go through. But many times what happens because there are so many multiple viewpoints, and you have the idea also and which might be the wrong because you have your own data to tally with, you end up seeing so many things to change, so you become indecisive also, and when that indecisive strikes, you end up just taking no decision or a lot of changes altogether, which again doesn't solve the problem. Now let's say if you take a systematic take step-by-step approach on making that decision, and let's say the decision is not correct, you will get the information then and there itself, then you can correct it. So it's like a systematic approach towards it, also. But a decision endlessly delays cost you far more than the wrong one. If let's say you just procrastinate and then think, okay, I should have changed it, this change this, change that, and you end up thinking about 10,000 different things instead of just executing one, it costs you momentum, it costs you the learning. That one comes from acting and it slowly costs you something bigger. Your trust in yourself. Every time you wait for someone else to validate that or validate what you already know, you teach yourself that your own judgment is not enough, and the belief compounds from that. You and when you take, let's say, other kind of decision, which I told multiple decisions all at once, and that doesn't work out, that also adds up to the compounding effect of negative talk. The founders who move, who decide, act, correct, decide again, build a completely different relationship with themselves. They learn that they can be wrong and survive, that they can trust their own reed, that the ground does not disappear when they choose without permission. That self-trust is worth more than any single decision being right. So, here is that practice. Simple, do it next time you are frozen. Sit down, write down the part that is actually confusing you. Get it out of your head and onto the paper, or the part where you're facing the most issue, according to you. Then ask yourself one question: what is actually causing the hindrance here? Not what is the right answer, what is stopping me from choosing? The answer will come, sometimes two answers will come, and often what surfaces is not about the decision at all, it is the fear underneath, and the fear of being wrong, the fear of someone's disapproval, the fear of owning the outcome, and the list goes on and on, and this indirectly in turns affect your internal state, your energy, your frequency, and your manifesting process. Anyway, based on what you know, you have done the work, you have the research. What has been missing was never more information, it was the willingness to implement without permission. Decide, act, correct if needed. That loop is how you build both a business and a self you can actually trust. Because without that, you will be always stuck in indecisiveness, and the worst than that also is negative self-talk. So this week catch yourself waiting, notice the decision you have been running or turning over for days that you are fully equipped to make, and instead of seeking one more opinion, one more reassurance, sit down, write the confusing part, find what is really stepping you or really stopping you from choosing that particular decision. Sometimes after you start writing it down, you will get a decision, but you have to ask a second question, like I mentioned here, on what is stopping you from taking a decision. Worst case, you are correct, it and that is the best case, actually. It is exactly right, you might end up taking a decision, and it turns out to be the best thing you must have ever done. Either way, you take back a little bit of trust in yourself, and that is the thing that actually changes your life. And the best part, you get the data point which will help you expand and excel. And if you want to understand why waiting for permission became your pattern in the first place, that is what the free video and a conversation with me are for. The link is the bio. I'll see you on Monday.