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While work­ing on a project today I was look­ing for moti­va­tional busi­ness quotes online and I found this quote from Oprah Win­frey:
 
“One of the biggest lessons I’ve learned recently is that when you don’t know what to do, you should do noth­ing until you fig­ure out what to do because a lot of times you feel like you are pressed against the wall, and you’ve got to make a deci­sion. You never have to do any­thing. Don’t know what to do? Do noth­ing.“
 
~ Oprah Win­frey
 
Now I admit I am not in any league to ques­tion Oprah’s state­ment but this one really touched some­thing very deep in me so I wanted to give my view.
If there is any­thing I have dis­cov­ered through my life, when it comes to per­sonal and busi­ness deci­sions, is that it is bet­ter to make a deci­sion — right or wrong — than no deci­sion at all. Two points.
 
1. When you are try­ing to make a deci­sion, whether per­sonal or busi­ness, if you find that every move you make is blocked then it means you are mov­ing in the wrong direc­tion.  It is bet­ter to rethink what you are doing. Put feel­ers out in dif­fer­ent direc­tions. If none work, just try a dif­fer­ent direc­tion.
 
2.  If you are not being blocked,  but still sit­ting on the fence and can’t move — par­a­lyzed -  it is bet­ter to jump off in some direc­tion.  If you make the right deci­sion — ter­rific.  If you make the wrong deci­sion  — you have learned some­thing.  But at least you did some­thing.
 
Doing noth­ing achieves noth­ing in my opinion.