After my episode on making hard decisions, a listener wrote in with the other half of the question: what do you do when you've already decided, but your mind won't stop spinning? 

She's unhappy at her job and staying on purpose, for the insurance, while she goes through fertility treatments to have another baby. Smart, clear, loving decision. And her brain still runs a mile a minute. As the reigning queen of buyer's remorse, I get it. 

This episode is about the Harvard research on why an open door keeps the mind spinning, the difference between settling for and settling in, and how to stop being a victim of a choice that was yours all along.

Today's reading is Wendell Berry's poem "The Real Work," on how the impeded stream is the one that sings. This is an episode about learning to settle into a decision you don't love but chose on purpose. 

Question to carry into your day:
Where are you being a victim of a decision that was actually yours to make? 

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