I can accept uncertainty when it comes because uncertainty is inevitable.

I can try to resist it by sticking to strict routines and avoiding exploration of new situations, new people, new ideas. But if I resist uncertainty, I will never take chances. If I never take chances, I will never know what I can achieve.

I can accept uncertainty because I know that I never have to face more than what is right in front of me. I do not have to face next week or next year. I do not even have to face tomorrow. I simply have to face this moment.

I open myself up to the possibilities that come along with uncertainty. Life is not meant to be a fixed course, driven in circles, with my gazed fixed only on the bumper ahead of me. Life is a hike through the mountains, with any number of possible trails, some more challenging than others, but all of them beautiful in their own way.

If the path I expected to take is suddenly obstructed, I will take another. And if that one becomes blocked, I will take yet another. I trust myself to put one foot in front of the other.

If I get lost for awhile, I will keep walking, certain that, in time, I will find my way. Perhaps I will end up on the same path from which I started. Perhaps I will end up somewhere entirely new.

Either way, I will continue to explore, to keep myself open to possibilities that could lie just around the next bend.

Self-Reflection Questions:

1. What have I avoided doing because of the risk of uncertainty involved?
2. What have I wanted to try but avoided doing because of uncertainty?
3. What is a small step I will take today to begin exploring this possibility?