Call It a Tie: The Coin-Flip Rule for Small Decisions

Call It a Tie: The Coin-Flip Rule for Small Decisions

Here's a practice for the next time a small choice freezes you: call it a tie.

If you've gone back and forth twice, stop and ask one question — would I be fine with either one? If the answer is yes, flip a coin and give the result one second. Relief means go with it. A small "oh no" means take the other one. Either way, you have your answer, and you don't reopen it tonight.

This is for the small, reversible stuff: what to wear, what to order, which gift, whether to reply now or in the morning. Bigger decisions still deserve real thought. What you get back is the ten minutes the stall was eating, and the part where you stop being hard on yourself over something that was never hard for a good reason.


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