I used to be crippled by big decisions. I would go back and forth, imagining all of the different ways that each option could play out.

But eventually, I found a way to deal with these situations.

How?

It started during my college application process.

I was interviewing for a spot at an Ivy League school, and the interviewer left me with a few words that had a tremendous impact.

It was something like:

Best of luck to you. If you get in, I highly recommend that you go.

But if you don’t get in, don’t worry about it. You’re not going to be successful because you go to an Ivy League School. You’re going to be successful because you’re the type of person who’s in the position to go to an Ivy League school

In that moment, I released all the anxiety I had about my college choice.

And that mindset has stayed with me, well beyond the days of college admission.

For the biggest decisions in life, we’re forced to choose with limited information. There’s no way we could possibly predict what will happen to us in the future, and which factors will lead to a given path turning out positive or negative.

So my approach is to make a decision and move on.

And the best part?

We’ll never even know if we made the right choice.

-Brandon