Front-Loaded and Back-Loaded Indecisiveness

If you are faced with indecisiveness, whether it be over big life-changing things or just small, everyday things there is an important aspect to procrastinating over making decisions that you can train yourself to recognize.

These are red flags that could be the cause of your indecisiveness.

I will break this down into two types of indecisiveness: Front-Loaded Indecisiveness and Back-Loaded Indecisiveness. Both are forms of evasion.

Front-Loaded Indecisiveness happens when you are trying to avoid facing your current situation. You can think of this as a “head in the sand” type of indecisiveness.

For example, if you are indecisive about what color to paint your living room, it could be because you really just don’t want to paint it at all and you are just using painting as an excuse to not have to face some other problem in your life.

Or, maybe the reason you can’t decide which color to paint your living room is because you are anxious about your finances and you don’t want to spend the money on paint at all. So your subconscious is manifesting this financial anxiety in the form of indecisiveness about how to spend money you don’t have.

In both these examples, it is a form of redirection from a different, usually bigger and uncomfortable, problem in your life that is going on.

Back-Loaded Indecisiveness happens when you are trying to avoid the responsibility that you (consciously or subconsciously) know will come with your decision, once you make it. By procrastinating on making your decision, you put off for another day the responsibility that comes at the other end of the tunnel.