Indecision is an overthinker's paradise.

When we entertain multiple paths forward, we hold multiple possible realities of our future at once. This gives the overthinker many different scenarios to ponder, calculate, and compare.

Which path is best? But what if X, Y, or Z happens on this path? What is the probability of A occurring on path 2 if I start on path 1?

Throw those notions aside. Even if you're an overthinker, deny yourself that hungry rumination of what could happen. The overthinking mind deceives its host into believing that fully knowing something gives us control and security. Spoiler alert—it doesn't. The world is so full of variables that our minds simply can't account for all the moving pieces. Control here is an illusion.

Do not get stuck at the foot of the fork, pondering for hours and days which path to take. Take a path, move forward. If you learn you're on the wrong path, you will find or make a bridge to the right path.

Keep moving forward, don't look back.

And of course, overthinker, do leverage your tendency to consider your options thoughtfully. Make a decision informed by your faculties. Just don't let your faculties turn against you. The mind is indeed a terrible master—do not let a tendency to overthink run free and corrode the path of your life. Wield it, do not let it lead.

The overthinking mind will convince you that indecision is safe, that it is optionality. This is its paradise, thinking it is free when it does not make a choice but instead only analyzes these choices.

This is no paradise. It is a purgatory. Stay clear of this place.

When at a decision, make the decision and move forward. Some decisions can be reversed. Some can be traversed. Some are immutable. But regardless, they must be made.

Make the decision and escape the purgatory.