Difficult Decision Difficulties 😔🐇

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Often, difficult decisions are most difficult before they’re made. This is when our mind runs in all directions. The mind considers everything, and starts catastrophizing. 😨

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I remember when I was learning CBT (as a patient), I learned that catastrophizing was a key part of my anxiety.

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I focused on how things would turn out for the worst. 😞

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It became a habit.

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And it meant my mind raced down ALL the rabbit 🐇 holes.

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There’s an alternative.

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Once you’ve made a difficult decision, you get to focus on just the rabbit hole in front of you.

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The hardest part of this is not making the decision (i.e. choosing a rabbit hole), it’s MAKING the decision (i.e. giving yourself permission to ignore the other rabbit holes and not second guess yourself).

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To really commit.

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When you’ve committed to just your rabbit hole, you get to focus on only your next step. 👟

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And the decision may not seem so difficult in retrospect. 😊

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