Don't Pickup The Binoculars Until You Know What to See

 

YES YES Yowwww, there are times in our life WHEN we are super-duper eager-beaver to achieve the mother of all our successes.  BUT alas, there are those WHO, in the end, seem confused and lost.  And in the midst of the chaotic situation, they will be tempted to grab for binoculars, thinking and believing that once they get glued through it, they will find their clear path towards their cherished goal.  BUT Don't Pickup The Binoculars Until You Know What to See.  On the surface, things may look so simple to handle until you get bogged down and stalled.  And once you pick up your pieces, you come across forked roads and nowhere to go📘📙📗

BTW, this dilemma of seemingly getting lost along the way is NOT limited to teens OR those in their 30s OR even to the retired pensioners because figuring out your direction in life can and may happen at any point in one's life.  WHICH reminds me of some people shocked to learn that someone in his advanced age suddenly seems lost in life [just like teenagers].  So, WHEN do we become vulnerable to getting lost along the way???

Anytime you're NOT satisfied in life, dude. And quite surprisingly, studies show that the most prevalent root cause of us getting lost along the way is our unconsciousness and unawareness that we have breached from thinking to overthinking.  And quite an alarm because the studies showed that 73% of those between 25 to 35 years old and even 52% of those between 45 to 55 years old chronically OVERTHINK.  
And WHILE taking time to THINK about big life decisions is important, OVERTHINKING leads to paralysis , deferred decisions and inaction💧💧💧

There's a quite uncommon fallacy most of us are NOT aware of.  Many of us [wrongly] think that finding the right direction in life is something that happens to us.  BUT it's NOT!  WHICH means, at some point, we have to stop thinking about taking action and start acting.  And researches also show that one of the most common reasons people DON'T act is FEAR.  They're scared of messing up things and scared that things will NOT work out favorably for them💥💥💥

Our takeaway:  As this did happen a few to me before, WHAT I learned [the hard way] is to trust your own instincts.  As it is our primal internal urges and alarms that help keep us alive, let us listen [and take an extra step of interpreting] those urges especially WHEN an impending decision may seriously impact our well-being.  Surely you heard someone muttered like:  IF I WOULD HAVE JUST GONE WITH WHAT I THOUGHT, THIS WON'T HAVE HAPPENED'.  Truth is, nine times out of ten, there are tell-tale signs a.k.a. red flags and things that feel 'a little off' about a situation that we simply shrug off and dismiss.  Worse, let us NOT pickup the binoculars UNTIL we know WHAT to see💚💛💜