Overthinking and not making a decision can be crippling for leaders. Melody Wilding, LMSW is an executive coach and author of Trust Yourself: Stop Overthinking and Channel Your Emotions for Success at Work. Here are some great suggestions on how to not overthink issues.

Deliberation is an admirable and essential leadership quality that undoubtedly produces better outcomes. But for Terence and others like him, there comes a point in decision making where helpful contemplation turns into overthinking. If you can relate, here are five ways to stop the cycle of thinking too much and drive towards better, faster decisions.

1. Put aside perfectionism

2. Right-size the problem 

3. Leverage the underestimated power of intuition

4. Limit the drain of decision fatigue 

5. Construct creative constraints

Read more here —> How to Stop Overthinking Everything

Faith at Work: Jesus is always clear and Jesus encourages us to make decisions. In Matthew 5:37 Jesus said “Let what you say be simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything more than this comes from evil.”