A Rock and a Hard Place [1]
Uncertainty is a bitch.
- “Do I stay or do I go?”
- “Should I do this or that?”
- “Will I regret this?”
When we don’t have control over an outcome, we get a serious case of brain-drain, spiraling thoughts, and nagging feelings.
Most of us handle uncertainty in one or more of the following ways:
- We confuse ourselves even more. We have no idea what we want so we think more options will compensate for our lack of vision.
- We honor our inner-critic instead of our inner-guide, twisting our stress into “proof” that we aren’t good enough, smart enough, or whatever script your inner-critic likes to follow.
- We second guess, then triple guess our decisions. We seem to think that somewhere there is a perfect choice.
- We jump to the worst-case scenario and feel like the walls are slowly caving in. From that space, we feel trapped and forced to take whatever comes our way.
News flash:
The perfect choice, circumstance, or situation doesn’t exist. There are positives and negatives to everything. Life is about making choices and either making it work, changing our mind later, and/or learning from our mistakes.