To live life with intentionality, you must be decisive. Indecision to action kills opportunity. Analyzing every detail stalls forward progress. William Arthur Ward said, “The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision.” Many people are stuck in the paralysis of analysis. They are drowning in a sea of distractions. 

It is very difficult to be decisive when we are preoccupied with trying to figure out every reaction to our actions before we make a move. I am not saying we should act hastily, but most of us make excuses to talk ourselves out of acting at all. We get distracted by the details. 

The word distraction means to be pulled apart. The word depicts a medieval type of torture method that would tear someone apart at the seams of their limbs by being tied to four horses going in opposite directions. This became known as Death by Dis-traction. We cannot allow ourselves to be distracted from the goals set before us. Everyone faces distractions in life, but the key is to identify them and to keep moving beyond them. Drive your performance in the straightest line possible to your target by eliminating the unnecessary. 

Better to make a wrong decision decisively and recover than to make no decision at all.

Joshua 24:15b says, “Choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

Notice Joshua says, “Choose this day…” We must be decisive to make a choice. What choices today do you need to make that will drive you to a better future?

Make the right choices and get going!