Some decisions in life are easy: should it be pizza or hamburger? Some are little more difficult. The system I use to settle life’s little indecisions has been the humble coin toss. Of course, the whole point of the flip of the coin is to polarise the decision and elicit a true response to the quandry – a bit like putting a loaded gun to your head but without the fear of leaving a smear of brain and tissue on the back wall. I find the whole idea of the 50/50 nature of the coin quite compelling and it is interesting how sometimes I just know whether it is going to be heads or tails or some decisions remain consistent during the coin toss even if I change my predicted guess from heads to tails.
Yes, it might seem flippant to leave important decisions to such a process, but trust me: it works. It certainly clarifies a situation and helps you through to the other side. Of course, if you are indecisive in the first place, this methodology isn’t going to be any good for you because you’ll still argue the toss – pardon the pun.
So one decision in my life has consistently come up in the positive to a point that I am willing to travel down that road into the unknown and change everything. It could be a gamble, but then getting out of bed is a gamble, no? Another decision has also been confirmed thanks to my trusty two-pence piece…but how to extricate myself from that particular position? I don’t know. I’ll figure it out.

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