Whatever it is you want to do – whether it's something specific, like losing ten kilos or finding a part-time job, growing your own vegetables or learning to dance a tango, or something more general, such as travel or be more healthy or learn a new language – more often than not there's more than one way to achieve it.

You have choices.

Identifying a range of options will stretch you beyond your usual way of thinking, and because positive thinking broadens and opens up possibilities and ideas, you may find that some of your ideas spark other ideas.

Too often, though, you might spend ages agonising over the pros and cons of each option: you over-think the situation. How, you might wonder, do you know that you'll be choosing the best option, that you'll definitely be making the ‘right’ choice and the ‘best’ decision? How to know that the option you choose will work out, and if it doesn't, that you won't regret having made a different decision?

Quite simply, you don't, can't and won't. When you make a decision, you can never know for sure that it's going to turn out well. But with some thought and positive action, you can make it more likely.