Do you ever have thought of ‘I just don’t know what to do next’?
It’s very easy for us to sit in confusion. Feeling like we need to wait for a sign, more direction or some more information.
If we knew what to do next in our business, we would just go out and do it! But there are so many variables.
Do I have the right niche? Is my price ok? Am I offering enough value? Am I talking to the right people? Am I using the right business strategy?
Like many patterns, confusion can be an indulgent emotion.
It’s an emotion that serves us in the short term because it saves us from the unknown. For entrepreneurs, taking action into the unknown brings up a lot of fear.
Daily questions circle in your head: Will I go out there and fail publically? Will I be humiliated? Will I reveal that I don’t know what I’m talking about? Will I insult anyone in the process?
The much easier option is to sit in confusion, and have the thought of ‘I’ll take action on this when the answers come to me’.
But here’s your daily breakthrough…
Confusion doesn’t come from the environment or your circumstances. The confusion comes from your thoughts about your circumstances.
What’s the problem?
Your feeling of confusion never comes from the outside world and what situation you are in. It comes from your thinking and what you make the situation mean.
There are many people out there with limited information who don’t sit in confusion. Rather, they take action and find the best course of action.
Think about someone in the military.
They can go out on a mission and have many unknown variables. However, they don’t feel confused because their thinking about it is radically different!
One thing that’s for sure, sitting on the fence not knowing what to do is a powerless position.
What I encourage in all my clients is to build their muscle of courage when they face the unknown rather than indulging in the emotion of confusion that’s being driven by particular thought patterns.
Just like starting off at the gym, you can begin small and have a series of wins.
What’s a task that’s small, yet you have found a way to procrastinate because you were unsure about it? Maybe it’s someone you don’t want to contact, a blog post you don’t want to write or even an offer you are not presenting.
What if you faced the uncertainty and followed through not for a particular ‘outcome’ in mind, rather just as a way for you to build the overall skill of courage?
How would you feel knowing you are building the internal muscle that will help you achieve your long-term goals? Wouldn’t the skill of building courage be more important than the task itself?
Knowing this, what’s a thought you could think in the moments of confusion that would propel you forward to take action?
What can be your alternative thoughts to ‘I don’t know’?
What I coach my clients on is to swap that thought with ‘I’m figuring it out’.
The thought still credits you with the same level of knowledge. However, it gives you the assumption that you are still taking action and learning in the process.
Think of how differently you would feel if your response to someone’s question was ‘I’m on the path to figuring it out’ compared to ‘I don’t know’.
The first may bring up more fear, but it also brings up more opportunity for you to build your courage.
What happens when you take action, build your courage and base it off some new thought patterns?
You start to access your true wisdom.
Have you ever felt like you were on you’re a game, you felt so clear and level-headed?
Ever felt the confidence vibrating in every cell of your body?
What thoughts were you thinking in those moments?
My guess there was no hesitation with ‘I don’t know what to do next’.
There’s a part of you that’s triggered when you take action based on some positive thought patterns or beliefs. You access your creativity, insight, confidence, passion, and determination.
This is pulled out of you by mastering nothing more than your psychology, and the best news is, it’s completely within your control!
Catch yourself next time you feel hesitant with the thought of ‘I don’t know’. Recognise if it’s serving your goals and learn to change the thought consciously.
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