There are a lot of people who know what they want in life, but they never get it.

Why?

Some people get stuck in the decision-making stages because we are wired to resist change and uncertainty. In Part 4 of the Getting Unstuck series, I gave a couple of solutions to this problem: Making change our default decision and thinking about whether change will be any easier later can help push us towards deciding to make a change.  

Deciding to change is an important first step. If we really want to change our lives, we need to know what we want. But knowing what we want is not enough to get us there. We need to move from decision to action.

How do we do that? Once we decide to change, what do we do next? How do we get ourselves to act?

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Major life decisions can be hard.

Should you quit your job? Break up with your partner? Start a new business? Move to the suburbs?

These single decisions can alter the course of your life. How do you even begin to decide?

Try starting with one simple question:

“Do I still want to be here (in this job or this relationship or this location) five years from now?”

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If you’re like me, you’re probably trying to do all the things. But we’re not just trying to do all the things; we’re also trying to balance all the things.

And we’re not always succeeding. A recent study found that only one-third of full-time employees in the U.S. strongly believed that they had work-life balance. That means that two-thirds of us don’t.

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How frustrating is it when you know what you want to prioritize in your life but you can’t seem to follow through on it?

You want to prioritize getting healthy, but you can’t stay out of the double fudge ice cream. You want to build your business, but you have a hard time overcoming your fear of public speaking. You want to spend more quality time with your kids, but you can’t seem to put your phone down.

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