Description If you habitually answer "whatever" or "anything's fine" when asked what you want to eat, take note: the only cure for procrastination addiction is to decide, right now! □ Have you ever placed your own cup on top of an already overflowing pile of dishes in the break room, even after seeing a sign that says "Please clean up after yourself"? □ Have you ever told yourself on your way to work, "I'm not going to do anything today, I just don't want to"? □ Have you ever ignored an email you found awkward to answer because you didn't want to deal with the problem? □ Do you habitually oversleep and dread going to work? □ Do you go back for a second helping even when you're not really hungry for it? If you answered "yes" to even one of these questions, the habit of postponing and avoiding decisions has already taken root in your life. It's understandable — in an era where everything from work styles to lifestyles and trends is changing rapidly, there are more decisions to make than ever, and making them only gets harder. Perhaps you're afraid of making the wrong choice among countless options, find the responsibility overwhelming, feel too tired to think it through, or have simply made a habit of putting things off. Sometimes decisions get delayed because you're agonizing over making the best possible choice. But postponing a decision is essentially handing over control of your own life to someone else. Whether at work or at home, making a decision is the key step that allows you to wrap things up and move forward. This applies not only to major decisions — whether to marry this person, whether to stay at this company, whether to take on a huge loan to buy this house — but also to small ones, like which outfit to wear, whether to cancel plans because you're tired, or what to eat for lunch. To those who avoid decisions because they fear regret, the author of this book says, "The decision people regret most is the one they never made." Having worked with many leaders and young people across companies and universities, the author laments that "some of the most educated, intelligent people in human history are filling their lives with regret simply because they lack the habit of deciding." Instead of facing the choices in front of them, they turn away with phrases like "Whatever," "It'll work out somehow," or "Whatever happens, happens." Isn't this, in fact, an irresponsible attitude toward one's own life? This book makes it clear that a life without regret — a life for which you take full responsibility — is built on the habit of deciding. It generously shares practical methods for building this habit, including how to make choices you won't regret, the right timing for decisions, tools for making good choices, and how to build your own personal "advisory board." It also introduces various real-life examples of people who built successful careers by not hesitating to decide, vividly showing that behind every impressive résumé lies the everyday power of deciding. The key to a regret-free life is never avoiding decisions Life is a series of decisions. To bring yourself to where you truly want to be — in your career, relationships, and the place you choose to live — you need to make good decisions again and again. The power of deciding extends to knowing clearly what you want, choosing for yourself, and ultimately living a life free of regret. This is why the book so strongly urges us to delete the "whatever" attitude from our lives. If you want to break free from the exhausting cycle of procrastination and start making good decisions — if you want to live a regret-free life through decisions made on your own terms — read The Habit of Deciding. After finishing this book, you'll find it hard to casually say "whatever" ever again.