From the course: Making Tough Career Decisions
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When you fear making the wrong choice
From the course: Making Tough Career Decisions
When you fear making the wrong choice
- As a reflective deep thinker, I can often see many possibilities and options, which can be great, but can also get in my way. Something I've had to face head-on is my fear of making the wrong choice. Maybe you can relate. Maybe you've been confronted with a big career decision, and you stall or feel anxious because you don't want to choose incorrectly. You don't want to have regret, disappoint others, or feel like you have to backtrack. Here's the thing: there are no wrong decisions; there's only what's right for you. Decisions are messy and complicated, and it really takes the pressure off to understand that every experience you have, whether you characterize it as good or bad, is exactly the experience you need to have at that moment. Some choices may lead to more challenging lessons than others, but nothing hurts more than living in fear. To get yourself out of binary, good-or-bad thinking, try this exercise to use…
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