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7 Ways to Deal with Uncertainty So You Can Be Happier and Less Anxious
How to embrace an uncertain future
- Replace expectations with plans. You can guide your tomorrow, but you can’t control the exact outcome.
- Prepare for different possibilities.
- Become a feeling observer. It isn’t the uncertainty that usually bothers you; it’s the tendency to get lost in your feelings about it.
- Get confident about your coping and adapting skills. Ask yourself, “What’s the worst that can happen?”
- Practice mindfulness. Notice and appreciate the beauty of the moment.
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- Clarify your goals and objectives, what is really important to you and what is optional.
- Create a map. You need a system that allows you to maneuver when you lose perspective.
- Go towards uncertainty. Take the first step and you’ll see that the limits of the unknown become narrower.
- Focus on what you can control in the short term. Do not obsess over what might happen in the future or you will be foolishly paralyzed.
- Be open to surprises. It will allow you to learn and experience things that you have not even dreamed of.
- Accept the risks.
- Be curious. Observe, read, question, learn, do not take anything for granted.
- Be brave. The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
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