Discover Opportunities You Never Imagined; Embrace Uncertainty
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
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Do you know what’s going to happen to you tomorrow? The answer to this question is inevitably “No.” Even if you have the best plans and schedules, you can’t predict for sure what’s going to happen.
So how do you deal with uncertainty? By accepting it.
Uncertainty is Stressful (But it doesn’t have to be)
Letting uncertainty happen is stressful. It scares us when we don’t know what’s going to happen because we imagine all kinds of bad and undesirable things that might occur. We feel that we can’t leave too much up to chance. But when we try to eliminate all uncertainty, not only do we block out the bad stuff that could happen we also block out the good things that could happen - things that we never guessed might occur.