5 Ways to Make Better, Faster Business Decisions (Even If You’re Overthinking Everything)
You know what’s worse than decision fatigue?
Decision regret.
The kind where you finally make a call—send the email, price the offer, pick the niche—and feel it in your chest before you even hit "done."
It’s not that you’re indecisive. It’s that you’re trying to make dozens of business decisions every day with no real system. No lens. No filter.
Just vibes, a vague sense of urgency, and maybe an open loop from a podcast you half-listened to yesterday.
You’re not scattered because you’re sloppy. You’re scattered because no one ever taught you how to make strategic business decisions.
So you’re building your business from a blank slate. Every. Single. Day.
I used to lead strategic operations inside a billion-dollar company. My job was turning vision into plans, plans into action, and action into results. The kind of results that had actual money, people, and growth behind them.
Now I help smart entrepreneurs like you make those same kinds of decisions… but without the meetings, the middle managers, or the burnout.
Here are five ways to start making better, faster decisions in your business (even if your brain is tired and your default mode is "overthink and delay").
1. Ask: Is this aligned with my bigger vision?
If you haven’t defined what you’re building—what you actually want your business to look like in 6 months or a year—everything feels urgent.
But not everything is for right now.
Not every opportunity is for you.
When I first started my business, I was super ambitious and energized which led to me identifying 11 different revenue streams - and of course I was going to stand up right away.
Consulting. Coaching programs. Retail products. In-person retreats. Digital products. Speaking engagements. Writing a book. All before I even had consistent revenue from the first one.
Sometimes we aren’t necessarily scattered, but unclear.
Without a crisp vision of where your business is going, every option feels viable. With a vision, 90% of them filter themselves out.
Clarity cuts options down. That’s where faster decisions begin.
2. Ask: Does this support the season I’m in?
You are the CEO of your business. Which means you are the decision-maker, the vision-holder, and the human holding all the emotional weight behind the scenes.
And yet, most business advice skips right over that part.
We act like strategy should exist in a vacuum. As if what’s happening in your life, your family, or your body shouldn’t impact how you plan.
But it does.
I once mapped out a huge launch plan for a new program in the middle of summer. Strategically, it made sense. I had the vision. The plan. The energy. I was ready.
What I didn’t account for?
My kids' summer schedules. Helping aging parents. The emotional toll of putting myself in full-on visibility mode.
I kept beating myself up for not sticking to the plan, until I realized the plan didn’t match the season I was in.
I scaled it back. Gave myself space. Rebuilt it to fit the real capacity I had.
And the result was that it actually worked better.
A great decision made in the wrong season can still lead to burnout.
Instead of asking "Can I do this?" ask: "Can I do this sustainably in the season I’m in right now?"
3. Ask: Does this move me closer to my 90-day goal?
If you haven’t defined one, that’s your first move. Without a short-term focus, you’ll keep saying yes to every shiny idea and calling it "momentum."
Think of your 90-day goal like headlights on a dark road. It doesn’t have to show you the whole journey. Just the next safe stretch.
Without that beam of focus, you’ll find yourself veering off course, distracted by detours that look productive but pull you off track.
A 90-day focus gives you permission to say:
Not now
This can wait
That’s a Q3 thing
Clarity makes decisions easier. Priorities make them faster.
4. Ask: Do I actually want to do this... or do I think I should?
"Should energy" is heavy.
It’s rooted in pressure, performance, and proving. It drains your decision-making power because it bypasses alignment and hooks into fear.
One of my clients kept delaying the launch of her new offer. She said she needed one more certification before she'd feel "ready."
But when we unpacked it, she already had everything she needed to serve her people powerfully. The certification was a delay tactic rooted in fear, not fact.
We rewrote the goal. She launched. People enrolled. And she realized: she wasn’t missing credentials. She was missing confidence.
If a decision is coming from guilt, FOMO, or fear of being left behind… pause.
Desire-based decisions are more sustainable. And usually, more successful.
5. Ask: Will this simplify my business or make it heavier?
If every decision adds more platforms, more processes, more offers, more moving parts, then you're not building momentum. You're building maintenance.
A good decision often reduces your workload. Not increases it.
If it doesn’t simplify something? It better be deeply worth it.
Why This Works (Even When You’re Tired)
Because it gives you a lens. A way to trust your direction without rethinking everything every 48 hours.
You’re not bad at making decisions. You’re just making too many from a place of panic instead of clarity.
These five questions help you:
Stop spinning
Make fewer, better choices
Protect your energy while still moving forward
That’s how momentum builds.
Want a System That Helps You Make These Decisions Automatically?
This 5-part lens is just a piece of The Unscattered Business Method™ — a 12-step framework built for entrepreneurs who are tired of building from chaos.
I’ll show you how to:
Reduce overwhelm
Build a plan that fits your life
Make decisions faster, with more confidence
I built this method for people who are smart enough to do the work and tired of wasting energy figuring out what to do first.
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