Decision Making

I have a decision before me at the moment and I have to have an answer by mid-morning tomorrow.

I am having a great deal of difficulty making this decision; I am very ambivalent (and no, if you look it up you'll see it doesn't mean I don't care, it means I can't decide one way or the other):

I have no gut reaction - there is no internal negative or positive feeling.

Cost/Benefit analysis - does not provide a deciding point

Pros/Cons - there is one Con that is reasonably important to me; I have to consider how much weight this particular factor holds. As various circumstances will be different in the future (and all that is known is that they will be different to the current situation, it isn't known the direction/how they will be different) I need to consider whether this factor could be of lesser importance to me in the future than it is at the moment (just thought this whilst writing - maybe it will become MORE important to me in the future!).

Path Dependancy - what if I make no decision; no, that's not an option. Is the decision reversible? No not really, either way.

Maybe I could do a SWOT analysis as well.


In all this I'm noticing something about myself I hadn't been aware of. I've never thought of myself as particularly indecisive, but I seem to have proven so over the last few months. I tend to think that I don't hold strong views on many things, and, as a result, am generally happy to go with the flow/do what others indicate they have a desire to do. But now, here I am with a decision thats' main impact will be on me, and I can't decide.

I'm going to leave the question alone for a while and purposely NOT think about it for a few hours, maybe that will help.

Hmm and maybe when I come back to it I could look at it from a True Self perspective ... ie will making a yes decision be in keeping/fit with my True Self. Hadn't thought about that yet.

Off to do something else than think about this for a while.....