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How to Move Forward in An Uncertain Time
By Tama Kieves:
(This piece has been excerpted and adapted from my book… THRIVING THROUGH UNCERTAINTY: Moving Beyond Fear of the Unknown and Making Change Work for You)
Where do you ache for certainty? This, my friend, is where you’re growing wings. You are about to discover that you are more powerful than you know.
In my coaching practice and workshops, I’ve worked intimately with hundreds of souls facing uncertainty. I’ve seen every kind of crossroad. And I’ve seen this pattern. It’s the insistence on how things are supposed to be that causes pain. You do not lack the right life right now. You do not lack your path or the best circumstances. You lack awareness.
On a clear, bright, “high def” day in July, my friend Grace and I walked across the Hudson River Walkway in Poughkeepsie, New York. Grace had come with the idea to do a healing ritual. She is my energy-sensitive shaman friend, walking with white owls in one realm, and copywriting for marketing executives in another. I love people who walk in multiple realms. I believe we are the ones who will shift the world. Of course, that is, if we can survive our own minds.
Grace was going through a divorce. This change was slicing her to the bone, forcing her to let go of a dream and an identity.
At the time, I was feeling out of control with my business. I’d wake up in the middle of the night in panic that I couldn’t get everything done or that I wouldn’t ever find the right people to help me, and that I would screw up my life and miss my chance at destiny.
Really, I just wanted to hand someone all my problems like a bunch of grenades and run. There were moments of stress that seemed unbearable.
I found myself in a haggling mode with God—take it all away. Take away the uncertainty, the pressure, make it all go away. Give me an answer. Just take care of it.
It was the prayer of the tired.
It was the prayer of someone who had forgotten that real peace of mind wasn’t something you could just pick up at Shop Rite like tinfoil.
I was frantic to be out of pain, and I hadn’t yet realized that pushing myself to be out of pain—was causing even more pain.
I wanted to be “there” already— somewhere where it was all resolved and I was maybe just a tiny bit rich and famous, and forever healthy (without having to exercise) and all of it was permanent, and never ever going to change again.
But, of course, life was asking me to be here. Be here. Because here is where the Milky Way is. Here is where the answers are, and the payoffs, every single one of them. Here. Not there. The Universe was answering my prayer. It was answering it with the circumstances that would catapult me into change.
Grace had brought with her a woven blue pouch. Within the pouch, there was a small smooth black stone and a small smooth white one. She had gotten this ‘kit’ as a sort of fun personal “divination tool,” long ago. You ask your question about the future. You pick a stone, white is yes, black is no.
She was going to toss the stones into the great beaming Hudson River from high on the bridge. “Goodbye black and white thinking,” she said referring to expectations, answers, the desire for mad control.
She’d had enough of trying to make her situation just go away. “I’m not looking for definitive answers now,” she said. I felt this big space come over us. The truth always has this signature. “I’m done with trying to force solutions or breakthroughs as though I can,” laughed my wise friend.
“So, what are we looking for if not immediate resolution?” I asked her as the tiny pouch with simple promises twirled its way off the bridge.
The moment I asked the question, I knew the answer. “Next steps,” I said. “We’re not looking for answers. We’re looking for next steps.”
As if on cue, a breeze rippled the river below. I felt as though a Silent Love nodded with approval.
When I coach clients, I guide these brilliant souls, who are no longer looking to create a conventional life, to follow the sacred breadcrumbs along the trail. It’s the only way I know to the “gingerbread house” of your wildest desires. There are always breadcrumbs.
Your instinctive intelligence is always communicating with you. An inspired life results from co-creation. There is always a cue or a next step.
Sometimes the next step is letting go of a limiting belief. Sometimes it’s taking a class or going for a walk. Sometimes it’s the decision to take it easy because you’re tired, even though part of you is desperate to win a Pulitzer or accomplish something.
You might have no idea how to get your life off the ground. And sometimes you may not even know where you want to go. But if you slow down with compassion and a willingness to do “whatever,” there is a vortex of clarity in each instant. A hint in a book. A phrase in a conversation. A sudden memory or nudge. There is always a next step.
This isn’t rationalization for being clueless, lacking a business plan or focus for life. It’s just how a period of transformation takes place.
You can’t anticipate the journey that is, by definition, beyond your experience and everyone else’s too. A life of original expression requires the willingness to be birthed from within. Real change happens through illuminations more than tactics.
Anais Nin put it this way “There are few human beings who receive the truth complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment.”
You might feel like you want to move faster than one moment at a time. But foundational changes do not happen through acceleration. They happen consistently and cumulatively. A spiritual life is not a life that is answered in the future. It takes place in the present, one day, one moment, one clarity at a time.
You don’t need to figure your whole life out at once.
You don’t have to know what you’re doing. You don’t have to know how this will all unfold. You won’t know, even if you think you do. But you can take one next step. This journey can be maddening, but it’s exponential—and non-negotiable.
Grace looked down at the river that had absorbed her symbolic offering. She said, “I am saying goodbye to the need for certainty instead of authenticity. I am letting go of the need to rush or know what I can’t yet know.” It was a lovely way to acknowledge that her life was a mess, that all our lives are a mess, a continuous lopsided tango with uncertainty dressed in tight pants and sparkles.
Grace and I walked off that bridge feeling brighter. We’d eased some of our pain just by making the decision to stop trying to force the path to freedom to fit into an unrealistic consumer convenience. It was okay to feel uncertain and still move forward. We would just keep putting one foot in front of the other, one step at a time.
I felt safer again, too, ironically, the more I committed to journeying into the unknown. It felt good to work with truth on truth’s terms. I felt a connection to Grace, to myself, to life and to everyone on that bridge, and everyone who would yet be on the bridge of life, crossing from one solid place to another.
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Here’s my Coaching Practice for You this Month: Become Aware:
Where are you “insisting that you know how things are supposed to be”? If you were simply being in this moment, what is one next step or breadcrumb that’s calling you right now?
(Quick… email us and tell me your first thoughts or intentions for yourself this month. Sharing IS strengthening! I will hold it with you in love.)
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TAMA: Honors graduate of Harvard Law School turned mojo career catalyst.
Best-selling author of This Time I Dance!: Creating the Work You Love, Inspired & Unstoppable: Wildly Succeeding in Your Life’s Work!, A Year Without Fear: 365 Days of Magnificence, and also Thriving Through Uncertainty.
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