Day 4 – Saying YES to NOT KNOWING

Several years ago after my major ergonomic consulting contract ended and I was in the beginning stages of “figuring out” what to do next I remember saying to a beloved NLP teacher of mine.

“I don’t know what is going to happen.”

And with a smile she said “Nobody knows what is going to happen.”

That is so true. We can do all the planning in the world and sometimes life just happens. What is the phrase? “We make plans and God Laughs!”

Seven years ago I finally finished my ergonomic ebook, Get Inside Your Comfort Zone that I had been writing and editing for over a year. I sold some copies and then a week later my dear stepmother passed away and then one thing after another happened and I never got back to the marketing of the book. I just lost interest.

Then I did an entire month of interviews with experts to help people get comfortable and out of pain. I wrote press releases and articles and had a lot of fun and nothing substantial changed in my business.

I tried everything in the world to turn the business around and nothing seemed to be working. It appeared that there was something else for me to do in the world but I had no idea what.

I was not ok with not knowing. I thought I had to know … otherwise I was not being responsible I thought. That was the conditioning. If something is not working I must be doing something wrong. Yes of course and then that gives me something to beat myself up about. OK. Done with that kind of thinking!

Right now I would like to know a lot of things that I don’t know. But I am ok with not knowing. Ok maybe not fully ok with it but that is something I get to surrender to. And trust. And surrendering to trust is way more powerful than most ways of being in the world!

Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!!!! <3