Walking Into the Unknown

One of my greatest struggles has always been thinking I needed to have everything figured out or a level of certainty that a certain thing would play out a certain way. I would wait till I felt ready to do anything, but ready required me to know, and knowing required me to research and feel prepared, and to do that, it often led to analysis paralysis.

Luckily enough for me, I lived my life like that for so long that it became exhausting, so exhausting that I just couldn't overthink anymore. It was more of a relief to just do the thing and figure it as I did it and things occurred than to try and plan everything out.

I had to realize that there had been so many times in my life where great things had happened because I just went for it versus waiting, planning, and thinking over and over or waiting for the best moment. The best moment is what you make. There is no magically best moment to truly do anything.

It is this mentality that I seek to follow in building GrandValli and growing it to become anything close to my vision. It does take some risk-taking, bravery, and courage to walk into uncertainty, but the more you do it, the more you build the muscle for it. Sometimes, you even purposefully seek out opportunities to just see what may happen and see how the world may surprise you and how you may surprise yourself.

I think we all can benefit from becoming friends with uncertainty and exploring a little more with it and through it. Whenever you doubt yourself or question if you can handle it, look back on all you have done without knowing the outcome, no matter how small, and then take one small action and keep doing that. Eventually, you will build this confidence that will make it easier each try to at least go for it.