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How to Make the Right Choice When You’re Confused

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How to Make the Right Choice When You're Confused

“I’m very confused. I want to do this, and I want to do that, and I want to do that too. But in all this confusion, my entire day gets wasted and I end up doing nothing. I’m interested in coding, the stock market, and business. But I can’t figure out which one to choose.”

Sound familiar?

The problem isn’t confusion — it’s comfort

Here’s what I need to tell you first: what you’re calling confusion isn’t actually confusion. It’s procrastination wrapped up in the language of confusion.

Real confusion only happens when you have two clear paths in front of you and you genuinely can’t decide between them. But what do you have? You haven’t even thought deeply about any of these options. You haven’t done the work.

Let me be direct: if your family has enough money that they can sit around and feed you for the next 2-5 years without you working, then this question makes sense. But if they don’t? Then this isn’t confusion. It’s comfort.

When the real pressure comes — when your mother is hungry, when your father needs medical treatment, when your kids need school fees — you won’t be asking me which path to take. You’ll take whatever path gets you money.

Interest isn’t what you think it is

You’re telling me you have interest in stock market trading, business, and coding. Let me ask you something: where did these interests come from?

Did your parents do this? Did you grow up around it? Or did you see some videos online where someone showed you their fancy car, their big house, and said “I made this money from this”?

Here’s the truth about interest: 99.99% of your interests aren’t actually yours. They were created inside you. There’s an entire marketing industry whose only job is to make you interested in things so you spend money.

When you scroll Instagram for 24 hours watching people’s lifestyles, you think you develop “interest.” You don’t. You’re being sold an image.

Let me ask you directly: if I put 20,000 rupees in front of you and said I can double it in two months, would you give it to me? Because if you won’t give me your money to double, why are you risking your own money thinking you can double it?

This is what’s happening with stock market trading. About 99% of people lose money. Only 1% make money. Yet you think you’ll be that 1%.

Stop chasing shortcuts

There are people who will come to you and say: “Take this two-month course for 20,000 rupees. Join our premium community. Get insider tips. You’ll make lakhs of rupees.”

Then they show you someone who started with 20,000 and now has a big car and a nice house. They don’t tell you that’s half their money from inheritance or their family. They don’t tell you the other half they’re still trading with and losing.

What are they actually doing? They’re taking your 20,000. They’re showing you people who got lucky and made money. And they’re making their commission off your hope.

If making money this quickly was that easy, why aren’t all the billionaires, all the business owners, all the company leaders doing this? They have the money. They have the intelligence. Why aren’t they in stock market trading?

The answer is: they know better.

Actually evaluate your options

Let me ask you something: what’s your educational qualification?

You said MCA — Master’s in Computer Applications. That means you can naturally do coding, right? So what’s the problem in starting there? You have the qualification. You have the skill.

You’re telling me you’re also interested in business and stock trading. But let me ask you: have you ever had even one business idea? Have you ever thought about it? Or does your interest start and end with watching YouTube videos?

If you haven’t thought about a single business idea, then business isn’t for you. Not because you can’t do it. But because you haven’t started yet.

Business is for people who are so obsessed with their ideas that they can’t stop thinking about them even when people tell them not to. You know who those people are? 1 out of 100. Not more. Business isn’t for everyone.

And with stock trading — you already know 99% of people lose money. So why are we even having this conversation about it?

What you actually need to do

Stop looking at interest. Stop looking at what videos are showing you. Look at:

  1. Your background: What qualification do you have?
  2. Your resources: What skills do you naturally have?
  3. Your reality: Can your family support you while you experiment? If not, you need income immediately.

If you need income immediately, you start with what you’re qualified for. That’s coding. You have an MCA. You can do this.

“But I don’t want a 9 to 5 job.”

Okay. But do you have enough money to not work for the next 5-10 years? If not, then you don’t get to choose. Reality chooses for you.

You can dislike the job. You can want something else. But you still do it because you need to eat.

Once you have money coming in, once you have stability, then you can start exploring other things. Then you can think about business. Then you can read about it. Then you can experiment.

The hard truth

What I’m telling you won’t feel good. It’s not motivational. But it’s real.

Your confusion is actually comfort. Your interest in all these things is actually marketing working on you. Your lack of a decision is actually you waiting for someone to make the decision for you so you can blame them if it doesn’t work out.

Start with what you have. Start with what you’re qualified for. Get money coming in. Build from there.

That’s not a sexy answer. That’s not what the YouTube videos will tell you. But it’s the answer that works.

Linda Wilson

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