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Indecision goes hand-in-hand with poor self-confidence.

Some decisions in life are hugely important and impactful — whom you choose to marry, whether to try heroin or not, quitting your job to start your own business. These are big-time decisions with big-time consequences. And it’s perfectly understandable for people to experience some mental back and forth between deciding.

But people with low self-esteem often treat even minor decisions as if the fate of the world rested on them.

This indecisiveness in even small decisions is often the result of low confidence in your own ability to make decisions. The key is to come to terms with the fact that you will make some bad decisions (or at least decisions that other people don’t like) and that in the end, that’s okay. Nobody dies if you choose pizza for dinner even though your family wanted Chinese.

Courage isn’t the absence of fear. Courage is the belief that you’ll be okay despite your fear.