DECISIVENESS [#18923]

June 20, 2022

QUESTION:

How can a person become more decisive and be able to make decisions?

ANSWER:

Generally, for this a person needs to build up his element of earth, by being more organized and consistent.
Getting more specific, there may be specific issues that are preventing a person from coming to a decision about anything. He may have (1) failures from his past which are getting in his way, (2) a low self-image of himself, (3) a lack of ability to take apart an issue (3) laziness, (4) a lack of ability to take responsibility for his decisions, (5) a habit of getting used to others deciding for him (6) a feeling that he is losing out on something if he decides one way, (7) a lack of emunah in Hashem, (8) he has attempted in the past to decide at something which wasn’t really in his control to decide, and because of this he got weak in his ability to decide things when he saw that he’s not fully aware of the reality it entailed.
So he has to know which factor or factors are holding back his ability to decide, and then he can see where the issue is coming from and fix it.