your order. Give yourself twenty minutes
to go online and research the best garlic
press and then make the purchase. Pick
things off the shelves at the supermarket
in under ten seconds. Knock yourself out
of the habit of being a deer stuck in the
headlights by demanding you wake up
and choose something.
If you’re someone who needs to
sleep on it or mull it around a bit, give
yourself a deadline. Don’t leave it open
until you decide and risk waking up forty
years later, finally sure of what to do,
long after the opportunity has passed you
by. Pay attention to how much time you
need to decide (overnight, a week, a
month) and demand of yourself that you