When You Cannot Hear Yourself Clearly

Sometimes the hardest part of a decision is not that you do not know what to do. It is that too many voices are competing with your own.

Notice what gets louder when everything gets quiet

Pay attention to the thought, feeling or need that keeps returning when you are not explaining yourself to anyone else.

Separate pressure from truth

Urgency, guilt and fear can make a choice feel necessary before it is clear. Give yourself permission to identify what you want without immediately deciding what you will do.

Choose one next true step

Clarity does not always arrive as a complete plan. Sometimes it is simply enough information to take the next honest step.