Battling the Fear of Uncertainty
Newsletter #33
Hello everyone! I hope your holidays have been going great! I have been pretty busy and having some difficulty keeping up with stuff, but still pressing forward. I'm okay with this kind of scenario personally and like to believe I thrive in these situations. How about you? Do you feel the same? These last couple of weeks I have been busy with my school work as well as the semester ending for this class that I have been teaching. That has been quite the experience so be prepared for a blog post of my experience on that coming out. Here's to hoping you guys have been having a productive time as well!
Something that I have been recently thinking about is the uncertainty of the future and outcomes of projects or tasks. I have many things in my life that I'm not always certain how they will play out. Sometimes these uncertainties can make me act in the wrong because of fear. While I may not be an expert in handling that, I tend to try to not let those thoughts consume me. Something that helped me get to this point though was thinking about what these thoughts and fears make me do. When I get overwhelmed with fear, my natural reaction is to just ignore everything and tend to not take care of what I need to take care of. I tend to shut down and then at that point, I'm making my fears become a reality. A lot of the time, the fears weren't going to happen until I did this act of shutting down.
After I recognized this situation I realized how I might be able to prevent some of the times that it happens. While I can't prevent everything from happening, I have been able to compartmentalize some of the things that I fear will happen into a bucket of things I can't control. I don't want to necessarily say to just ignore your fear and pretend that it doesn't exist, but I realized in myself that I was always so fearful of things that weren't going to happen in the first place. When I got to that point, I realized that I was spending more time being fearful and stressed out about a situation that would never happen than actually trying to achieve the things that I wanted to achieve. That isn't a fun way to live. I don't want to spend my days worried about something that might not happen and if it does, I might not even have control over the situation.
Since I have made this switch mentally, I have realized that I have started to accomplish some of my goals easier and I have been more willing to try new things. This newsletter is one of the things that has come out of these thoughts. I'm not one to be naturally open to sharing my thoughts because I'm usually afraid of what individuals will think or the repercussions if I say the wrong thing. I didn't have faith in my thoughts being able to help others. When I picked up this level of thinking though, I was able to realize that I was just holding myself back and I could accomplish these tasks.
And the Newsletter was born.
Not every day is easy of course. I still get stuck sometimes, but realizing this in myself was one of the first steps on being to start moving forward and overcoming these obstacles.
What about you guys? What are your thoughts about fear and uncertainty? How do you handle these feelings?
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