Indecisiveness As a Spin-Off of Right vs. Wrong Thinking I once asked a client if he had trouble making a decision, and he said, “Well—Yes and No.” Perhaps you have difficulty with decision-making, even with small things. This is a direct outgrowth of the inclination to divide things into right and wrong categories. The indecision comes from wanting to be right, and the postponement of a choice keeps you from dealing with the anxiety that you choose for yourself whenever you feel you’ve been wrong. Once you take away the rightness and wrongness of every decision (because right implies a
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