You’ll know when you are ready.
I am a very intuitive person. I listen to myself and pay close attention to what I am doing in the world and what is happening in the world around me. In my social life, I can be a bit impulsive, which I really like about myself, and in my professional life I am different. I have been very lucky in my adult life to have had the opportunity to try many different career hats on, and although to an outsider my path my look crazy and sometimes directionless, I have been at choice and in charge of my own path. What I know about my process in making big life decisions is this: I am an internal over-thinker at first, then I progress to an external analyzer (this step often times requires the listening ear of a good friend), and then I make a decision.
Making decisions big or small is not easy. I remember very clearly agonizing over what college to go, thinking that this one decision was going to determine the entirety of my whole life. Looking back on that process, yes it was a very big decision for me to make, and dare I say my first real adult one at that, but it most definitely has not determine the course of my life, I am in charge of that. What I have learned over the course of the last 10 years or so, is that decisions are in fact powerful, but I am in charge of that power. Honestly making tough decisions used to terrify me, to the point of inaction, which subsequently is a choice in and of it’s self, and that was a consequence of losing my own power and giving it over to the decision.
I love making decisions now, it is mighty empowering. As you all know, I am now a health and fitness coach, and I am working hard promoting living a healthy life, so that other people will want to make the choice to live a healthy life too. It is not easy to make the choice to change your life-style. It can feel overwhelming and terrifying, and I speak from experience. Making the choice to make health a personal commitment and thus a professional commitment was scary. I had a whole slew of beliefs in my head about what I though people would think, and how they would act towards me, and all those thoughts were really negative. But the truth of the situation has been nothing but positive and encouraging. I am leading by example and helping people become better versions of themselves, which was why I became a life coach in the first place; and being fearful that someone might judge me for that, is simply ridiculous.
Whether you are trying to make a big decision for yourself, or looking to make a small change within yourself to better your life and hopefully the lives of those around you, you will know when you’re ready to act.
Here are some questions for you to think about:
What is the cost of postponing making a decision?
How do you know when you are ready to make a change in your life?
What are the internal clues that help you know that you are ready for change?
How have you let fear keep you from acting on a decision?
What has been your greatest accomplishment from making a seemingly tough life decision?
What words of wisdom can you share with others about making decisions?
What is the best possible outcome of making a decision? What is the worst?
I would love to hear what some of your thoughts are on this topic.
I hope you all are well,
Talia
