Frozen, I couldn’t make up my mind.

There were so many options and opinions.

The direction was unclear.

I had overthought to the point of analysis paralysis.

It was my junior year of high school and I had to choose between continuing my debate career and breaking away to something that would ultimately grow my career and skills more.

There were a lot of pieces to the puzzle. Many people wanted me to pursue my career in debate. I had experienced some success and there was potential for that streak to continue. My coach wanted me to continue to further the team and carry on the legacy, I was afraid of the alternative, not doing debate.

I was very close to making a decision off of the opinions of others.

What stopped me? Alignment.

I did some searching and clearly identified my purpose. Then I continued to make the decisions that most aligned with this purpose.

Once you do that you realize that the noise doesn’t matter and you are able to live a more authentic life avoiding analysis paralysis.