Break through the fog of indecision
You’re lost.
Voices ring out all around you, but you can’t see the reason in them. Or the full value.
Each voice calls out for you, begging you to make a choice.
But what if I’m wrong? You think.
What if those sweet-sounding melodies spout from savage sharp teeth, ready to rip you apart and take you away from everything you know?
Better to stay hidden in the fog.

I’m a sucker for indecision. I can be pretty indecisive and wishy-washy.
You know that kind-of-an-agreement sound without the full committal? I’m great at that.
Reaction rules. Give me something to react to. A choice to make, a thing to consider; something forcing me to act.
However, reaction won’t save you. It’s a terrible guide through the fog of indecision.
It’s always creeping, omnipresent. It never stops trying to engulf you.
However, you can get ahead of it, and stay there.
By acting. By moving.
Imagine that. By moving, you could move out of the fog.
Now, while action takes you out of the inaction miasma, it’s not guaranteed to take you where you want to go.
Sometimes you linger in the fog for too long and lose your way. A bridge collapses, a path becomes overgrown, or just disappears off the face of the earth.
But isn’t the knowledge of that closed path better than standing alone in the fog, wondering?
When we wonder, we wander. We go down sparsely populated avenues of thought where only the most radical and ridiculous inhabitants live. They’ll tell you outlandish things, irrational things, incredible things — but they don’t know the truth. They live in eternal speculation.
But action takes us down real streets filled with real people. Not everyone is nice on these streets. Some will curse you, spit at you, beat you even. But that’s reality.
Action can take us to some weird places. But action lets us view the path we walk on and our surroundings. We’re in motion.
Doing something can be scary. What will happen? You can’t see. It’s past that hill over there, the one you’re walking towards.
But as you do, you move. You move out of the fog of worry and indecision clouding you. You notice what you did wrong, where you went right instead of left.
And you know, the thing about doing, is it’s the first time that’s really the toughest. The next times are easier.
No matter if it’s related to writing or sales or music, the first time doing something new is difficult. That’s when the worry-fog presses thick and messes with your brain.
But the clarity and relief you get when you do it beats any comfort you have within the fog.

The next time you’re thinking ‘what should I do?’ Try this: do what resonates with your gut.
Don’t talk yourself out of it. You can reason yourself out of — or into — anything. Fortune favours the bold, they say.
So take the torch of action and march out of the fog of indecision.
You’ll stumble and fall sometimes. Don’t worry. We’ve all done it.
You aren’t alone in this. Don’t be scared.
Take a step. Take action towards improving yourself, even something little.
Your journey out of the fog starts with a first step. Take it now.
