Strategies for getting comfortable with uncertainty

✨Mindfulness and Awareness: Practice mindfulness to become aware of your thoughts and emotions without judgment.

✨Change Perspective: With curiosity using uncertainty as an opportunity to learn, adapt, and discover new possibilities.

✨Focus on the Present: Practicing skills and immersing yourself in activities that bring you joy can help you stay grounded.

✨Positive Self-Talk: Explore your internal dialogue and start challenging negative thoughts about uncertainty.

✨Set Realistic Expectations: Life experiences are inherently unpredictable. Try to avoid trying to control every outcome.

✨Past Experiences: Reserving some time to reflect on not only times where uncertainty led to worse case scenarios, but also the best case scenarios.

✨Practice Flexibility: Embrace alternative outcomes and willingness to change potential plans when it’s helpful.

✨Seek Support: Often through sharing we feel less isolated and it can be helpful in shaping our perspective while also giving us clarity.

✨Embrace Uncertainty Gradually: Challenging yourself to embrace uncertainty with gradual exposure can gradually build your comfort level.

✨Self-Care: Prioritizing yourself. Develop strategies for self-care that increase your relaxation, reduce your stress, and boost your overall well-being.

✨Visualization and Positive Imagery: Envision yourself confidently directing yourself through times of uncertainty and arriving at positive outcomes.

✨Practice Patience: Accepting that answers and solutions may not come immediately.

The goal in Life isn’t the absence of discomfort, but what you do when you are uncomfortable.

Don’t prolong your suffering by staying in places you have outgrown.