Decide! by Karen Okulicz

Author:Karen Okulicz
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780964426054
Publisher: K-Slaw, Inc.

No matter what your decisions will be or how you follow them, having done all the research, you will have Days of Doubt, fondly termed the “D days.” They will come. It is almost as if they happen to test you a little. Those days are asking you, “Are you really sure you made the right decision?”

The “D days” are filled with calamities of things going wrong, or things not happening in your time frame. They attempt to cloud your vision. To get in the way of your process and progress. These days test your sanity, to see if you are going to proceed with the commitment to that great new idea, or product, or new book, or new career, or new move, or lifestyle change, or treatment.

In the beginning, with the newness of something, there will be many “D days.” As your decisions become more focused, there will be fewer. However, they still will come.

I was invited to Washington, D.C. to be a part of a conference on training. I was honored to have been invited. I printed an additional 5,000 copies of my first book. I didn’t know, mind you, the nature of a book-selling sales cycle yet. I was new to this. I received the shipment of books and put them on my back porch, fondly known as the K-Slaw, Inc. book depository. Now the porch is closed in, but not heated. It was the winter of the numerous snow storms and government closings. The conference was canceled. May I say, I felt I was being tested. Those books sat on that porch for months as I built my business. I believed they were laughing at me. In addition, books and weather changes do not mix. As I would open each carton, there was a layer of books that were buckled due to the weather changes. These books had to be replaced and the boxes repacked. OK, not a life-threatening situation, but not a wise business decision. This decision caused me many a “D day.”

Once recognized, the “D days” are seen as nothing more than a roadside stop. A brief time-out. Once admitted, once conquered. Easy? Never. They keep you humble. Just accept the process of a decision. The process may create new directions which will have some obstacles, that’s all.

You will doubt yourself. That’s one thing, but when other people are doubting you, well, that is something else. These usually are the same people who say they are worried about you. Don’t you just love that? You meet someone and they say, “Gee, I worry about you.” You’re thinking, “I thought everything was fine.” Usually they don’t have all the facts. Let it go. You know who these people are. Just read their name tags: “Hi, my name is ______ and I am here to doubt you, and to tell you I worry about you. I represent any doubt you harbor in yourself. I will shatter any belief you may have in yourself.” Usually when people doubt us, we get angry and frustrated with trying to explain ourselves.

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