You Already Know What To Do. Just Own It?”

Indecision is rarely about not knowing.

It’s mostly the fear of owning your choice.

Or overthinking everything.

 

Because making a choice means taking a stance. It means saying, “I’m going this way, not that way.”

And with choice comes responsibility.

And with responsibility comes the risk of failure.

 

So we think. And think again.

We try to predict every possible outcome, weigh every word, every detail. Demystify the unknown.

We wonder what others would think, what they expect, what would be considered “right” or “wrong.”

 

And the result? We make no decision.

Or worse, we let others decide for us. Or time. Or fate.

 

Fitting in is already a choice. Often, the wrong one.

You’ve probably been there:

• On your resume, wondering what to include and what to hide.

• In an interview, debating which version of yourself to sell.

• In your career, questioning what the “right” move is—according to others.

 

And after all that trying to fit in, after working so hard to say the “right” thing, you end up erasing yourself behind a sanitized version of who you are.

We try to control our image. Our words. Our actions.

We want to avoid mistakes.

We want to be perfect.

 

But perfection is exhausting. And, more importantly, it’s fake.

 

Because in the end, the choices that matter aren’t the ones that please everyone.

They’re the ones that feel true to us.

 

Letting Go of Control Is Taking Back Power

 

When you laugh, do you think about it first?

When you walk, do you spend 20 minutes analyzing your trajectory?

When you eat a cookie, do you calculate the exact way to chew it, checking if the texture meets expectations?

 

No. You just do it.

 

Because the most natural choices don’t require thinking. They happen.

And yet, when it comes to our careers, we act like every single move could make or break our future.

 

That’s not how it works.

• You can’t control everything.

• Recruiters don’t always know exactly what they’re looking for.

• So why twist yourself into knots trying to predict something that changes depending on who’s in front of you?

 

And when it comes to your resume?

• Don’t over-format it

• Don’t try to guess what they want to hear

• Don’t smooth out your real strengths just to check the right boxes

 

Just own your path.

And be proud of it.