It’s human nature to want to have 100% certainty before we make a big decision.
When it comes to the things that affect our quality of life like our health, wealth, and relationships, we want all the information yeah?
Will this workout be the one that finally gets me shredded?
Will this course be the one that finally makes my business profitable?
Is this the side hustle that will let me finally attain financial freedom?
Is this the person I’m really meant to spend the rest of my life with?
Will working out really change my quality of life?
Will resting properly really affect my day to day energy?
Waiting for 100% certainty before we try anything that might change our lives for the better paralyzes us.
I was reading Steven Bartletts book ‘The Diary of A CEO’ a few weeks ago when I came across this passage:
You don’t have to get to 100% certainty on your big decisions, get to 51%. And when you get there, make the decision quickly and be at peace with the fact you made the decision based on the information you had.
Before I started creating anything online, I really doubted myself.
I had this stubborn voice in my head that kept telling me that:
There’s someone I was supposed to be
There’s a place I had to get to
There’s money I needed to have, and much more
All this did was keep reducing my certainty so I delayed starting.
And when I did start, I stopped following through because of the same questions, and the uncertainty that kept resurfacing.
Between where we are now and where we seek to go there’s this wall.
Steven Pressfield calls it the resistance. Where who you are now is standing in the way of who you want to be because it’s going to be hard to get there.
I call that resistance uncertainty.
In the areas of our lives that have the most impact, most of us are comfortable.
We don’t want to change not because we can’t, but because we’re not 100% sure that we can.
This lack of certainty is enough to make us settle for what we know, or what we’ve been told.
But I want to challenge you.
For the next 6-12 months, pick an area of your life that you want to see growth in. It could be your health, your wealth or your relationships.
Determine a decision in that area that you know can have a big impact. For me, I’m picking writing online and making YouTube videos.
Before you start overthinking it, do it.
Then come back here in 6-12 months and tell me how it went.
I guarantee you that it will change your life, and that’s on both sides of the coin.
Whether it works out or not, you’ll be better for having tried it.