WHAT IF I DID

New opportunities present themselves at a time when you might not expect them. At a time when you have just started to settle into one position, only to be faced with the decision to take another leap into something new.

Staying with the known and comfortable feels safe. There is little uncertainty from one day to the next. We do the things we have always done for months or years and feel apprehensive at the thought of having to learn something new. To start over.

But what if that something new is even better than what we have experienced thus far? What if this is the next step we are supposed to take? And so, the questions start to fill our minds as we weigh one option over the other.

Perhaps this will not end up being the opportunity we thought it would be, but might eventually lead to it. Certainly, if we don’t take a chance, we will never know. But if we do go ahead with the decision to take on the risk of something new, we will at least not have that nagging question of ‘what if’. What if I only listened to my instincts? What if I didn’t give in to my overthinking tendencies?

Though new opportunities might not appear in our lives according to our timetables, we should at least give them the thought they deserve when weighing our decision to take that new opportunity or forever wonder ‘what if I did’.