MIND newsletter: Uncertainty or possibility
Happy Saturday everyone! I’m surprised always by how life can bring us a little joy every day if we pay enough attention or care a little more. For me it’s as simple as a warm-hearted story my client told me in exchange for my “how are you” message.
This week, I would love to bring to you:
1. M (Challenge your mindset)
A couple of weeks ago, I talked to one of my old clients. When we first started the coaching program, she was in the middle of dealing with anxiety and stress caused by a toxic work environment. Fear of uncertainty is the only reason that made her stay and kept enduring the bully.
Fast forward 8 months later (yes good things don’t usually happen overnight), I can feel her excitement when she told me that after leaving her previous job to take care of her health, she got 3 different opportunities that are more in alignment with her values and interests.
So our question today is, how could we storm through uncertainty to see possibilities?
Feel free to check my related article about “Choose crisis before crisis chooses you”
2. I (I’m my own coach)
Instead of giving you a tool to reflect on uncertainty and possibility, today I want to send you beautiful words from my favorite poem. It became my mantra in dealing with changes and uncertainty:
Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them.
Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain but for the heart to conquer it.
Let me not look for allies in life’s battlefield but to my own strength.
Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved but hope for the patience to win my freedom.
Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; but let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure.
3. N (The power of Now)
When was the last time you tried something totally new?
4. D (Do)
What would be one small new thing that you would love to try tomorrow?
It could be anything: go to a new bakery store instead of your fav one and try out their croissants (sorry this one is mine)
P/s: In case you missed our previous newsletters, here is the link to the archive.
