How to Embrace Uncertainty as a Gift
This is the second week of my coach training program, and it has been so good! It's been really hands on. We've had guest coaches come in, we've observed them coach, we've been coached and we've coached each other. I have just loved this time of really getting in their arena and practicing my coaching so that I can be an even better coach.
This week I had the opportunity to be coached around uncertainty. I shared my feelings with the person who was coaching me, and I told her that I love to plan. Yet we're in this state where things are being canceled, we're out of our routines, we can't go or we're choosing not to go to certain places. Things just feel, well, a little like a chaotic circus.
I'm just gonna be 100% honest: uncertainty can be challenging. It feels like there is a lot of anxiety because you don’t know what is going to happen next. To all of you fellow-planners out there, I know it is especially hard because all of the plans have just gone out the window.
I've been taking some time to really meditate on what it means to embrace uncertainty as a gift.
I was on a call this week with one of my business coaches and I got to encounter a bunch of different business owners discussing how we were going to respond to what's going on in the world right now. It was so inspiring and encouraging to see people coming together in community. It felt so inspiring to see all of the creative ways that they were supporting each other and thinking of how they could support everybody who is at home right now.
Who are maybe feeling okay, maybe feeling bored, maybe feeling overwhelmed thinking: “Oh, my goodness, all my kids are home!”
And so I started thinking about uncertainty.
Uncertainty is uncomfortable. But what if it were a gift? How could I lean into this time and see it as an opportunity? And I've decided to just sit with that feeling and see what comes up. However, this is easier said than done.
I'm sure you're wanting the practicals. How do you actually embrace uncertainty as a gift? I think if there's one thing that I could tell you, one word alone that I could share with you that would be presence.
It's so easy to want to distract ourselves from the feeling of uncertainty. So maybe that means filling our cupboards with food or trying to get a month's worth of toilet paper or going online and spending hours on YouTube.
So just take a moment.
Breathe...
Your breath will slow you down and connect you to the healing part of your body: the parasympathetic nervous system. Get super present to what's going on around you. This might be as simple as hearing the wind outside or hearing the page turn as your spouse reads a book or just experiencing what it's like to gently move your toes.
Allow whatever emotions to come up.
Are you experiencing grief, anger, confusion, contentment, excitement, disappointment?
Just sit with them.
It's okay.
We are in this together. ❤
