When I think of the word ‘decide’, I usually think about ‘choosing’ or ‘selecting’ from a range of options.
However, I recently learnt that the word decide comes from the Latin “to cut off”.
A decision is not about saying ‘yes’ to one thing, it’s really about saying ‘no’ to everything else.
Framing decisions in this way adds gravity and pressure to them. But maybe that weight can help us be a little more careful, considered, and deliberate.