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by Schwolop 3955 days ago
Bingo. I've also heard this sentiment expressed as "Flip a coin. While it's in the air, your brain will be wishing for one of the sides. Pick that choice and forget about the coin."
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The version of this that resonated with me is a quote from an otherwise-terrible movie called "The Very Thought of You." From the best Google result I could find:

  Pederson: "You have a decision to make...What's the problem? Bearing in mind there's no such thing as a difficult decision."
  Lawrence: "Sorry?"
  Pederson: "Well, every day we make hundreds of thousands of decisions. In a year, it runs into tens of millions. People get themselves into knots. The truth is, decisions are easy. Know why? Because every time, every time, we already know the answers."
  Lawrence: "You think?"
  Pederson: "Absolutely. Trade secret. Always tell my boys. You see, you didn't come to me to make a decision. You came to me because you didn't like the decision you'd already made."
I've found this to be mostly true and that once I view a tough decision through the lens of already having made it and only needing to accept that I don't like the decision I've made, the decision becomes a lot clearer and I'm able to move past it.
+1. Once you know what your heart really wants (when the coin is in the air), you don't even have to see whether it was a heads or a tails. :)