Today, our our Dadly Daily Declaration series continues with readings from the second part of the personal assertion, “I Embrace the Uncertainty” from Unfu*k Yourself by Gary John Bishop.
So, let’s dive into today’s reading from chapter 5, “I Embrace The Uncertainty”. Here are a few gems from today’s reading:
- No matter how much you chase certainty, you’ll never be able to hold it or retain it. That’s because it doesn’t exist.
- Certainty is a complete illusion.
- No matter how hard we may try, we can never predict exactly what life will bring. Our plans will falter at some point eventually.
- When we think we know everything, we inadvertently turn ourselves away from the unknown and, by default, whole new realms of success. The person who accepts how unpredictable and uncertain life is has no choice but to embrace it.
- In reality, even many of the things we think of as hard facts aren’t. They’re half-truths. They’re assumptions. They’re misinterpretations. They’re guesses. They’re based on cognitive biases, faulty information, or conditioning. Use science as an example. What we believed five, ten or twenty years ago has since been disproved. What we know today will one day be looked upon as archaic and outdated.
- Consider those same limits of understanding are everywhere in your life.
- The person who avoids the uncertain does not do this. They are too afraid of being judged, of looking foolish or stupid. They are stopped, one foot nailed to the floor by an illusion.
- Shift your thinking. Embrace the uncertainty. This becomes your personal assertion: “I embrace the uncertainty.”
- Remember, all of the successes, all of the experiences, all of the things you’ve always dreamed of are waiting for you in uncertainty. Once you accept this, it is not as scary as before.
- While the unknown can hold plenty of bad things, it also holds everything good as well. It is overflowing with opportunity and progress.
- Embracing the uncertainty has the power to transform your life. It will help you get in shape, make more money or find your future spouse.
- You will no longer hide from your life; you will be living it, drinking from it and enlivened by it.
- Life is an adventure. It’s absolutely filled with opportunity. But, it is up to you to embrace those opportunities fully and completely in all of their majestic, unnerving, and invigorating uncertainty.
- Focus on the things you can control and release yourself from worrying about what you can’t, like the weather, the Dow Jones, or what your neighbor thinks about your haircut.
- “I embrace the uncertainty.” This one simple statement can completely change the way you live, moment to moment to moment. The only thing that’s guaranteed in life is that it’s uncertain. The only thing we know is that we know nothing.
Those gems lead us to today’s Dadly Daily Declaration:
Like plenty of other things in our lives, part of our aversion to uncertainty comes from our fear of being judged by others. We are, in a very real way, afraid of what the tribe thinks and the prospect of being thrown out into the mystery and uncertainty of the wild.
You will never achieve your true potential if you are hooked by what other people think. In fact, you could change your life overnight by simply abandoning the notion that other people’s opinions matter.
If you want to win, you must be willing to be judged by others and not let that judgment get to you. If you want to do something truly great, you must accept that some people will think you are delusional or an idiot or self-righteous.
