Doubts are very powerful emotions. They make you stop acting. They catch you as if a spider catches a fly in its spiderweb. You’re stuck.
Doubts can be good if they help you rethink your lifestyle choices and eventually help you make a decision. For example, if you were doing something that you shouldn’t be doing or that doesn’t align with your life ethos and goals, doubts will be there to help you reconcile. If you’ve been smoking for the last 10 years and doubts come in whether you should
However, much more often doubts make us stuck in the flow of inaction. Thousands of people including me don’t act when rationally thinking we really should. We may not start writing the book that we dreamed about, may not start playing the piano or simply may not reconnect with our old friends. The reason? Doubts.
We may fear that this thing that we’re doing right now is not the what we should be doing. Or we fear that we shouldn’t even start something because we’re not going to make it anyways. Sometimes don’t take action because we fear the possibility of actually achieving what we set out to do.
There are hundreds of reasons why we can doubt something and not act. The key, in my opinion, is not to let that emotion linger for too long. Decisions help with the momentum massively. They’re the things that let us move forward with a graceful pace. Once you know what to do – just do it. It’s much better to make a mistake and then correct it rather than not doing anything at all.
The biggest regret of people on their deathbed is not that they’ve tried something and failed, but that they didn’t try it at all. Don’t let doubts rob you of the life you deserve. Do the thing you’ve been delaying today.