I Don't Have To Decide Today

Things That Went Right Today:

1) Tax returns DONE!
2) Met the author today of a wonderful book I'm going to read and review.
3) Learned about essential oils. Interesting stuff.


I was talking to a lady I met the other day who is a health and wellness coach. I was telling her about a decision that has been weighing on my mind causing me a bit of stress. Telling her the pros and cons and how I was expending so much energy on this issue and yet still could not seem to make a choice. Was paralyzed in a way. She asked me a simple and profound question. She said, "What if you just decide NOT to make a decision on that?" I hemmed and hawed for a bit, protesting that of course this thing that I had been stressing over was critical. But she persisted. "But what would happen if you just simply decided not to decide today?" As hard as I tried I couldn't think of really any earth shattering thing that would happen. It was a total lightbulb moment. I'd been stressing and standing still, because the timing was just not right. The reality was that it would really not matter at all to just shelve that decision until a later date, and in the meantime put the energy I'd been giving to it into other areas of my life. Such a simple shift in the way I looked at the issue made such a big difference. Usually we think that tackling issues head on and addressing them is the best way to eliminate stress, but for me in this case choosing to do nothing and put it out of my mind for a time was the crystal clear answer. So easy. So simple. After months of worry. Do we ever do that on other things in our lives? Put more emphasis on them than they deserve. Or force issues to conclusions before their time? I'm grateful today to give myself permission to just chill. Put the issue in a box until I'm ready to take it down and look at it again. And for the reminder that every question does not require an immediate answer. Sometimes we can just choose to let things go. Good to know.