Pushing Through Doubt
Doubting is okay. Uncertainty is alright. It’s okay to question and to experience internal reservations, and to feel unsure. And yet, while doubt is touted as a good thing, most of us are looking for a sure thing.
We are most often comfortable with familiarity and certainty and might even feel condemned when we are unsure. In our head, there might be a loop about how doubt is wrong, and faith is always right. We might even have the thought you have to “faith it — or fake it — until you make it.” But in our certainty-seeking world, doubt, like a lot of other things, just happens.
Doubt is that sense of unsureness that dogs our ideas, our actions, and our wellbeing. Regarding our self-concept and self-esteem, doubt often shows up as “imposter syndrome,” that crazy fear that somehow, someday, someone will show up and pull back your façade of ok-ness and reveal you are just a big fat fake. In this case, it is that space where internally our capability has outrun our confidence. And we doubt ourselves and our abilities.
And although we can accept doubt as permissible, we don’t want to live there. We don’t want to be perennial or permanent doubters, because always living in hesitation prevents us from moving forward. Perennial doubt leaves us frozen like a deer in the headlights between fear and certainty, between the ability to accomplish and frustration…
