You will never make all the right decisions.
And worrying about making a wrong decision is keeping you on the sidelines. It’s a 100% certainty that you will make one. There’s no fighting that. There’s no sense waiting for it not to be true.
What you can alway do is be on your own side. Cultivate a relationship with yourself that you know what you want, work not to not make mistakes, but to trust yourself not to pile on with meanness if it doesn’t work out. To be able to let yourself change course when it’s called for without shame or making it mean something about how valuable you are.
What if you could come to peace with the idea that we can’t control all the circumstances of our world, and therefore can never make perfect decisions or take perfect actions according to it? But learning to support yourself in the midst of dealing with it is a priceless gift.
Learning how to give yourself permission means learning how to do that for yourself with kindness and empathy. Grab the audio here. I guarantee that if you buy it and listen to it within 24 hours and don’t find it helpful, I’ll give you your money back.
“I know it isn’t easy,
whoever said it was?
Life is hard,
same as it ever was,
but you’ve got to try.”
Dolly Parton in her song “Try”