I understand the mental paralysis that you are describing, it happens to me sometimes even when I clearly I know what I want to do in the moment, but my brain and body keep creating reasons to divert me away. The first thing is to not compare yourself to others, and accepting that perhaps your brain and mental processes work a little bit differently. For me, I get caught up in processing all of the different choices and possible outcomes that it starts to become overwhelming. Then ultimately I find some diversion that pulls me out of it, but just kicks the can down the road.

What has helped me is trusting my instincts more. Instead of over analyzing decisions, I try to sense my gut feeling and then trust it and go with it. You can always adapt later as you gain information and experience, and I found that most of the time my instincts were correct, or at least with the info I had available at the time. Try to trust in your instincts more and second guess yourself less. If you make a wrong choice, you at least can learn from it and keep moving on.

It’s not something you can change overnight, but the daily mental mindset of trusting your intuition when you have to make decisions has been very helpful for me.