I’m becoming increasingly convinced that the optimal strategy is simply to take more action. Whether or not it’s the “right” action—

• If you’re good at taking the action and it’s an action that ends up moving you closer to what you want, then that’s clearly a win
• If you’re good at taking the action but it’s an action that isn’t optimal for getting you closer to what you want… in that moment that action was the most direct way to learn more about what a better action would be. Which is a win
• And if you’re not good at doing the action, action is the only way to get better at it. Still a win

I’m sure there is a subset of the population who are already habitually (too) good at taking action. Those people shouldn’t take this advice.

But if you’re someone who, like me, habitually errs heavily on the side of worrying and therefore not taking action, the optimal strategy is just take a lot of action. More books and more articles and more knowledge won’t help. That’s all comfort zone.

Of course, this is easier said than done.

But intention and awareness are a big part of it. Treat this moment as a checkpoint to at least declare that from now on your intention is to consistently take action. That won’t magically fix things, but now you’ll have a behaviour that doesn’t match your explicit intention. Which feels kinda bad, yep, but also is so common. And totally fine. That’s your starting point from which to curiously explore and resolve the mismatch.