Embracing Your Unpredictable Life

Life can be unpredictable.  You never know what challenges, road blocks, or detours await.  But, that’s what keeps life interesting.  The unpredictable is what keeps you on your toes.  It’s what helps you stay on alert and pay attention to what’s going on around you in the present.  Otherwise, life would be rather boring.

Habits

As a human, you are a creature of habit.  You like having your daily routines and rituals.  It’s the way you wake up, brush your teeth, make your morning coffee, etc.  These things are done on repeat without much thought.  But, constantly doing these things puts you in a state where you’re basically floating through life.  You’re going through the motions without much effort.  This can become really redundant and you start to question your real purpose in life.

Goals

However, there is more to your life.  Especially when you have hopes, goals, and dreams that pull you into the future.  This is what gives you something to work towards.  Goals stretch you and make you reach higher for more.  It’s what challenges you and gives you opportunities to learn.  You grow and expand in ways you never thought possible.  But, working towards your goals can be unpredictable.  You never know what you’ll encounter along the way.

Self Doubt

The first thing that happens when you face an unpredictable challenge is self doubt.  You start doubting yourself and your ability to overcome this obstacle.  The negative self talk pops up in your head about all the reasons why you can’t or shouldn’t do something.  Self doubt is unpredictable, it can happen at any time, and it can come out of nowhere.  Sometimes you may not even realize it’s happening.  Self doubt just wants to keep you safe in your comfort zone.

Predictable

Your brain’s job is to keep you safe.  It tells you to stop or avoid something that could be harmful or detrimental to your overall wellbeing.  Such as, not putting your hand on a hot stove.  Your brain opts for what it already knows to be safe based off of past experiences.  It looks for patterns of what is predictable and known in your life.  But, safe and predictable isn’t where life is truly meant to be lived.  That takes away all the fun and adventure.  Plus, the opportunities to learn new things and all the possibilities for growth.  Life would be quite boring and mundane if you just stuck to what was predictable.  Life will always hold a few surprises for you.

Unpredictable

There is a reason why you like drama and action movies.  It’s mainly because these movies are unpredictable.  You don’t know what’s going to happen and it keeps you guessing.  However, you want so badly for your own life to be predictable.  If you just had a crystal ball and could see into the future to know what was going to happen.  Yet, seriously consider if that would really benefit you to know exactly what’s going to happen next in your life.  It’s almost like spoiling the ending of a really good movie or book.  You’ll just have to wait and see what happens.

Life

Life is unpredictable and it’s meant to keep you guessing.  It keeps you excited about what’s to come next.  It makes life worth living.  Each time life doesn’t go your way just see it as a lesson to learn.  In fact, you will face many challenges in life.  Challenges are a part of your life’s story and often the best part.  Sometimes it’s so incredibly frustrating and aggravating when you’re in it.  But, later on you can to look back and see how you overcame and conquered the situation.  You might even be able to laugh at it and realize just how much better the story is because of what was unpredictable in your life.

Challenges

Life’s challenges are unpredictable and come up when you least expect it.  You can view challenges as a detriment or see it as test.  Don’t let the challenges get you down.  Life will come in waves.  There is an ebb and flow.  Or similarly, you see it as peaks and valleys.  Just when you’ve hit one valley, there is a peak right around the corner.  That is the only predictable part of life, the ups and downs will never stop coming.  But, you can be prepared by simply knowing that life is unpredictable and embrace these challenges head on.

You are so much stronger, wiser, and smarter than you realize.  Do not let unpredictable challenges in life hold you back from going after you goals and dreams.  You are not meant to remain stuck in your comfort zone of normal predictable routines.  Challenge yourself to step outside your comfort zone, embrace the unknown, and know that you cannot predict the future with complete one hundred percent certainty.  Life would be extremely boring if you could.  This is your unpredictable life so make the most of it by going after your goals and dreams.