Make Up Your Mind Day Date in the current year: December 31, 2025

Traditionally, the end of the year is a time to take care of unfinished business and make New Year’s resolutions. This includes making personal or professional decisions that you should have made long ago, but have been reluctant to make. The last day of the year is the perfect day to finally make those decisions and start the new year with a clean slate.

While it may seem intimidating at first, especially if being decisive is not something you are known for, the ultimate goal of Make Up Your Mind Day is to encourage you to take control of your life by making decisions and sticking with them. It’s about not being afraid to take risks, because what’s life without at least a little risk?

The key to successful decision-making is to find the right balance between analyzing each option and avoiding overthinking. The first step in making a decision is to clarify your goal. You need to clearly define the nature of your decision and understand why you need to make it. What is your ultimate goal? How will you benefit from it?

The next step is to identify your options and gather relevant information about each of them: facts, expert opinions, etc. Try not to fall down the rabbit hole of unnecessary research: you need only the information relevant to your decision, not all of it.

Once you feel you have enough info to go on, make a list of pros and cons for each option. When making these lists, you should consider both the short-term and long-term effects of each decision, as well as your feelings and personal beliefs. While it is not advisable to make decisions based on emotions alone, you must take your emotions and feelings into account because they are just as important as facts – and sometimes even more important when it comes to making certain personal decisions.

Now it’s time to make your choice! Remember, you don’t have to choose the option with the longest list of pros or the shortest list of cons. Again, it is all about finding the perfect balance. Sometimes things just click and you go with the decision that feelsight, even if it may not seem right to an outside observes.

Making the decision is the biggest step here, but it is not the last. Once you’ve made the decision, you have to take action to see it through. Of course, big life changes do not happen in the blink of an eye, but you have to do something. For example, if you decide to go back to college, you don’t have to choose a program right away, but you can make a list of available programs.

The final step in making decisions is to learn from them. You should review the results of your decisions, analyze what worked and what didn’t, and use the lessons you learned to make better decisions in the future.

Finally, one more tip: if big decisions seem overwhelming, practice by making smaller, low-stakes decisions that won’t drastically change your life. This will help you build confidence.