I have been contemplating a career move for quite some time. (Who isn’t these days?) In what I have always thought to be a responsible way of dealing with such a huge change I started envisioning and evaluating the consequences of such a change. It is good to evaluate the pros and cons. However because I have recently been working on being more self aware regarding the way I deal with things and the messages I send myself I realized that I only evaluate the cons. My internal dialogue is peppered with “What Ifs”. For example: What if I don’t like the change. What if I fail at the new venture? What if I am doing right now what is best for me? What if……
I have really started to dislike those two words. For me they seem to be the embodiment of negativity. I rarely say, What If I am really happy at my new venture or What if I am a huge success. The words seem to naturally be followed by a negative statement.
As I contemplate this huge change in my life I have decided to banish those two words from my vocabulary and my mind. When I use them I am lamenting some long past choice that I made and wondering if it was the “right” choice or imaging a negative future. I don’t want to devote my time and energy to either of those ventures. Traveling down the road of “what if” is a dead end. Is it the same for you?
