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You Can Change Your Mind

February 11, 2014 by Cheryl Maloney

Fotolia_30758739_Subscription_XXLDo you hesitate to make a decision because you don’t want to make a mistake?  Have you decided that the next job, the next relationship or your next home is going to be the last one so you want it to be perfect?  When we place such high expectations on ourselves we end up being stuck… and that doesn’t make us happy, satisfied or remotely fulfilled.

You can take the pressure off yourself with one Simple Step … a shift in your perspective.  Rather than thinking in absolutes decide to make your choices based on where you are in life right now.  You don’t know where you’ll be a year from now let alone five or ten years down the line so why feel you have to make a decision now for what might happen in the future?

Think of it this way.  You wouldn’t make the same decisions now that you did when you were a teenager, right?  So why think you have to make a decision now that will work for the rest of your life? Instead think of your decision as making the best choice you can based on what you know or believe right now.  Allow yourself the freedom to make a different decision when it’s appropriate for you to do so.  And that feels so much better than setting an unrealistic expectation.

Filed Under: Change, Cheryl Maloney, Columinsts Tagged With: Cheryl L Maloney, Decisions, Simple Steps Real Change

About Cheryl Maloney

Simple Steps Real Change Creator, Publisher, Best Selling Author, Talk Show Host, Transformational Life Coach, Starting Over Mentor.

Comments

  1. Marilyn says

    February 11, 2014 at 9:04 am

    Great advise. Totally take the pressure off even the biggest decisions. Thanks, Cheryl.

  2. cindymlag says

    February 11, 2014 at 7:42 am

    I love this Cheryl. What amazing miracles we receive when we are not resisting the changes in our life,

    • Cheryl Maloney says

      February 11, 2014 at 7:50 am

      Thanks Cindy! You are the master at showing us how to go with the flow of our energy. Namaste’… with love, Cheryl

      • Suzy Manning says

        February 11, 2014 at 1:47 pm

        I Love this perspective Cheryl. It feels so freeing.

        • Cheryl Maloney says

          February 12, 2014 at 2:43 pm

          Thank you Suzy! Isn’t it wonderful to feel the freedom? I know it has changed my outlook on life. Cheers! Cheryl

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