The Fear of Not Knowing

In the last couple of days the world has gone a little crazy. Things that we know and count on have shifted and reshaped with lightning speed.

There is one thing in common with my clients this week, and that is the fear of not knowing.

At this moment, it’s not the Coronavirus that is scaring the shit out of people. It’s the fear of not knowing what is going to happen that is scary.

It’s the fear that we don’t know what is happening to our money.
It is the fear that other people are making the wrong choices right now.
Or that we are making wrong choices and not even knowing it.
It’s fear of death and losing a loved one.

Here is the underlying truth…

We have never known what the hell is going on.
We’re just under the illusion that we do.

All along we have assumed someone will buy our services because they have valued them in the past.
There was never a sure thing.
There was never a guarantee.
There was never control.

But now the wind has blown up our skirts, and the truth shows itself, and we are reminded that we have control over only one thing.

We are always in control of how we react to things.

We are in control of our own thoughts feelings and actions.

We are all bobbing out at sea keeping our heads above water.
And we can choose to get on our surfboards and feel down into our feet and continually shift our weight back and forth to ride the wave.

Or we can just bob aimlessly in the sea of misery.

I think surfing sounds a whole lot more fun.

There is the choice of letting life happen to you or carving out your own path.

We can choose inaction because of fear. Because doing nothing is a deliberate choice.

Or we can choose deliberate creation.

Right now you can choose who you want to be in a crisis.

I think it feels better to be a helper and the leader of my life.

I know it’s the older folks who are in more danger of death with the virus, so I made a donation to our local Friendship Trays/Meals on Wheels.
I don’t feel like a hero, but it makes me feel better than bobbing aimlessly.

And now I will take the next step and find someone else to help.
Because I don’t have to figure this whole thing out right now.
I just have to decide what to do next.

When you feel financially scared, acting out of your abundance rather than scarcity creates more abundance.

All you have to do is decide what the next step will be.