3 Things To Do if You Are Lacking Clarity
Get out of your comfort zone, overpower the fear and know what to do next!
What makes you behave like you do when facing a barrier or block? How do you navigate through it?
The voice in your head may say things like:
- Why aren’t I doing the things I say I want to be doing?
- How come one minute I’m an amazing go-getter and ambitious and I’m fearless and then next minute I’m lazy and running from my fear?
- Why do I always seem to sabotage my success?
- Why do I always seem to get in my way?
- What’s really blocking me?
- Am I really just setting myself up for failure again?
- Why isn’t this going as smoothly as I’d like it to be?
If you can understand why you keep hitting this brick wall, you’ll be able to navigate past it.
It’s time isn’t it? To be the person you really want to be? Understand this about fact about yourself......
Human beings are driven by the need for certainty.
We all have a need for comfort, security and safety. A need to know and know that we know.
We want to be in control. To know we have a place to sleep tonight, meals on the table, that our family is safe. It could be the knowing we having a job, an income or comfort. Sometimes it’s the security of family, spouse or friends who have got our back.
When we feel certain, stable or comfort we feel we are able to avoid pain and discomfort and gain pleasure.
The minute we step out of our comfort zone, doing something new, there is the potential to encounter very uncomfortable unknowns. We can feel unstable and insecure.
So what do we normally end up doing? We go racing back to what feels comfortable, secure and safe.
Hence we self-sabotage.
Hence going from a go-getter to lazy and fearful the next.
It’s the need for certainty, it drives our actions - or inactions. We become paralysed and stuck. We all do what we need to do to get this need met.
There are unlimited ways of getting this met. It’s different for all of us. I might get it met a different way to you, or I might need more of that certainty, security or stability than you need.
This need for certainty becomes the block that stops us from living our purpose.
This block is what crops up whenever we are trying to start a new habit, or start new goals.
We end up setting goals that are not really goals at all. They do not get us to our dream. They do not move us past our present condition. The reason is:
- we set goals on what we know we can do
- we set goals on what we’ve currently done
- we set goals based on the current resources that we have
- we set goals for what we know how to do
- we set goals that are foolproof.
That means we are seeking certainty when we are setting goals.
We want clarity before we set goals.
If we don’t have clarity we kill the goal. If there are too many unknowns we abandon the goal.
Suspend the need to know the how.
You don’t need to know everything in order to move forward.
Find a new way to get your need for certainty met, besides needing to know every step along the way.
Find a new way to feel comfortable and secure instead of looking for it in the ‘how to’ - or else it will always be a wall and barrier to you.
Alter how you get your need met for certainty.
3 things to do if you are lacking clarity
#1 Observe. Cultivate awareness.
Stop!
Notice how you’re getting your need met for certainty in that moment.
Things, people, places - what is making me feel certain. What is making me feel uncertain? Is it a person, a place, a thing? Is the feeling insecure or unstable?
What’s going on? How am I getting the need met?
#2 Investigate. Be curious, not judgemental.
Take a deeper look. Reflect on your observations.
What is driving you in this moment? Are you going take action or be paralysed?
What caused you to want to go back?
#3 Reevaluate. Think and consider new options.
Reflect and reevaluate.
What is a new and empowering way that I can move forward?
What’s a way to handle it so that it feels great and I feel good about?
How can I find a way through so that I can go on to serve my greater good?
It’s not about suspending your need for certainty. it drives all of us so that’s not possible.
Suspend your need to get your need for certainty through the how-to. Meet it in a different way.
Some strategies to help you be thorough:
- Do some homework. Do some research. Hear how others have done it. Some practical steps, resources that can guide you. This can help you feel like you have a higher level of clarity to go forward.
- Get resourced. Turn to a mentor and/or coach. Looking for advice. Someone that has done it before. Get help to process your thinking so you can look at it a different way.
- Just do it. Don’t make it worse than it is. See how it goes. It’s through doing it, and experiencing it that you can get a lot of the answers and clarity.
- Remind myself of what the truth is. You may turn to faith or you may have to give yourself the truth of the situation. Remind yourself, ‘I’m creating it’. Certainty is an illusion. You don’t know what’s going to happen in the next 5 minutes. You make it up.
Don’t fight the feeling.
You can totally work out how else you can get this need met, take control of the fear and do it.
There is a higher purpose you’re living for, it’s going to take having a clear mind and deliberate actions to cause you to fly like an eagle.
Don't stay stuck where you are lacking clarity. The power is your hands to create a change in your life.
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