Is procrastination destroying your strategic plans?

There is a sweet-spot between impulse and inaction, between impetuousness and overthinking, between being rash and bring wishy-washy.

Should I, shouldn't I? Green or blue? Chicken or fish? iOS or Android? Office supplies from Supplier X or Y? Is it better to share my thoughts on LinkedIn or Facebook? Summer vacations this year in Paris or London? As a decision-maker at home or office, one is confronted with choices all the time and, at times, decisions need to be taken fairly swiftly while they can wait on other occasions. Act in haste, repent at leisure, they say. Fair enough. But there's also the opposite camp that advises against hemming and hawing or dragging one's feet. Is there an ideal way or time to take a call, then?
Brainstorming is good, but over-ruminating something won't necessarily help you make the ideal choice. There is a sweet-spot between impulse and inaction, between impetuousness and overthinking, between being rash and bring wishy-washy. That is where all decision-makers would, ideally, want to be. But like Platform 9¾ in the Harry Potter series, it's a tricky domain to find. A few practical steps can help one reach there, though.
Like setting yourself a realistic deadline. Say, you walk in one morning and need to come up with a catchy name for a new project for your team. You've probably got a few suggestions presented by your coworkers to choose from. Maybe you like some, maybe not. Set yourself a pre-lunch deadline to finalise one. This way, there's a certain finality to the approach. In addition, understand the fine line between being analytical and being illogical. Think hard, but don't overthink your decisions.
Sometimes, personal biases can make a decision particularly tricky. The lunch menu for the office party, for instance. Your love for pizza may not necessarily be shared by the rest of the team. The choice is obvious: go with what a majority of the team prefers. You could also delegate some of the less strategic decisions to your team members to ease them into the decision-making domain. And if there's still something that you can't decide, well, take a break.