I wonder if anyone can relate to this…
Do you ever find yourself worrying a lot that something won’t go right, you might get it wrong, it might not work or you might not meet the expectations of others? To try and prevent any of these from coming true, do you then spend a lot of time planning and thinking about every eventuality and all the worst-case scenarios in the hope that it might prevent something from going ‘wrong’? (whatever wrong means!)
Me: 🙋🏼♀️
I find what then happens is you feel a bit ‘stuck’ and face the dilemma of do you let the worries around something going wrong overpower the probability that it’s more likely to go right?! 🚦 It can lead to feeling a bit unsure and like the traffic lights are just stuck on amber. Red would be listening to all of the worries and staying still. Green would be just going for it and moving forward! So, by not making a decision, we can often just hover around in the amber of uncertainty.
💁🏼♀️Having self-belief is not easy to acquire and it’s not something we are actively taught, but if we believe that we can do something and think more positively, we enable ourselves to move forward and move from amber to green. Here is a simple tool I use to make the lights change.
Instead of saying…
‘That’s great, but what if a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,k,l,m,n,o,p,q,r,s,t,u,v,w,x,y or z goes wrong?’
I simply say to myself
‘But what happens if it goes right? Why don’t you focus your attention more on the potential positive outcomes? Then watch what happens.’
✨ Of course we won’t always know exactly what the journey ahead will be like but there really is only one way to find out, to just go for it and believe you can do it because you absolutely can 🙌! Too often, our fears hold us back as we hover on amber, but yet everything we’ve ever dreamed of is waiting on the other side of them. So, if you’re looking for a sign to just go for it, then this is it!
I wonder if you can relate to this at all?
💭 🙋🏼♀️🚦🙌 🚗 ➡️
