Decisions, Decisions.

I am currently faced with a conundrum.

Whenever I am confused about a situation, (and I am quite often confused about situations)
I always fall back on the Walmart plan.

"What exactly IS the Walmart plan?" I heard you ask

Well, I'll tell ya (there's a surprise)

When I was in my mid-twenties, I was a District Manager for Walmart in charge of about 11 stores in and around Indiana/Kentucky.  As part of the training to get me ready for that responsibility, they made me a clean up manager for a while.
A clean up manager goes into stores with specific problems (like an inventory problem, a sales problem, an HR problem, etc) and then you have to find a solution for that problem. It's a great immersive, experiential way to deal with actual problems instead of just theoretical situations.
One store I was in had an HR problem. 
There were people just not doing the work they were hired to do. 
One individual in particular comes to mind.
She worked on the night shift and never completed her tasks but always left a very extensive note about why she was unable to finish the tasks. 
I was out with some friends in the Fort Knox area, where the store was in which this girl worked, so I decided to drop in on my way home. (around 2 am) I discovered that this girl was not in her department doing her tasks but instead over by the magazine rack reading magazines.  I walked to the back to check if she was perhaps on her lunch break or some other break. 
She was not.
She was just not doing her work.
I pulled out the performance report book from the previous manager and discovered that this girl had been written up 6 times in the past year but was still employed for some odd reason.  When I brought this girl into my office the following day, she had many excuses and the long note as to why things did not get accomplished. I had to let her know I saw her reading on the clock and that she already had 6 write ups from the previous manager and today would be her decision making day.

Walmart has the 3 strikes, boom, you're having a decision making day.
And THAT is the Walmart plan.

A decision making day is one where you are given a day off (unpaid) to decide if you are going to shape your ass up and get on board with what is expected or move on to something else.

When I have a difficult decision to make, I set a decision making day for myself wherein I decide, am I going to proceed on my current path or am I going to cut bait and move on to something else?
(yes, I used a fishing analogy - one my brother used one time while giving me advice and I liked it!)

So there it is - I have set a date for my current confusion.
I need to do this to keep anxiety at a minimum and to keep progressing in life.
This is a simple but sometimes painful way to 'rip off the bandaid' of moving forward.
I will sit with a problem for quite a while but when it begins to interfere with my daily tasks and goals, then I am acutely aware that a decision making day is in order.