Decisiveness
Decisiveness is a very essential quality. There are many people who are incapable of deciding, who go on thinking. They waste their whole life in thinking whether to do this or not to do, to be or not to be, and they are always hesitating, they can‘t act, and without action, life is futile. They can‘t decide, and without decision there is no possibility of your growth.
Yes, one should look at all the possible alternatives, but not for too long. It should not become a habit. One should look at all the alternatives and then one should be able to decide. One should not wait for a perfect decision, remember, because in life there can never be any perfect decision. [....]
If one is a perfectionist, One is doomed to fail. Perfectionists are indecisive people. Nothing satisfies them, everything falls short. Their ideal is too high. Everything seems to be unsatisfactory.
Decisiveness means knowing that life is imperfect and life is short, knowing that we have limitations yet we have to decide. Alternatives are limited, we cannot wait forever. One you decide then you go wholeheartedly into it; you risk all.
One has to be a gambler. Then only something is possible: Growth is possible, a new birth is possible, a new being is possible. Otherwise, nothing is possible. Decisiveness is absolutely necessary.
-Osho, “Eighty Four Thousand Poems, #5“