When You are Confused about what to do How to Find Clarity

Confusion itself is not an issue. It is a totally self-correcting state, a perfectly natural one. It’s what we construct of our confusion and what we carry out when we’re faced with it that really has us suffering.

Clarity is always present, but you don’t always see it. Your innate, default nature is full of clarity. When you’re not lost in personal thought, temporary one, your brain clears a bit. Motivational quotes of life support that when your head clears a bit, you simply have a sense of direction. You naturally, instinctively know what to do next, as clarity is always there for you.

Confusion (thought) clears on its own, always, so there is nothing to do but wait. Confusion always signifies that you are lost in thought as not everything you think is confusing. Thoughts are sort of like clouds. They cover up and roll in the transparent blue sky and bright, sunshine. Then they roll out. Thought does the same way. It rolls in and protect your clarity, and then it rolls out.
As your thoughts start to break up a bit and your busy brain slows down, you reconnect with vibrant plans. You start to feel a pull toward something. There is nothing you have to do or even can do to push clarity. Simply wait for the clouds to pass.

New thought is always on the way. Do you ever awe where new creative thought comes from? It’s amazing, really. You can be minding your own business, just going through your day, when suddenly something you’ve never thought comes pops into your mind. You didn’t make it happen. New, fresh thinking is a present we’re given hundreds—if not thousands—of times each day.  None of us know what we’ll be thinking a few minutes from now, which is such a testimony to the availability of insightful, helpful thought at any time.

Keep letting the slate clear. Although new plans are always possible, it can certainly feel like you’re stuck in the same old thinking day out and day in. But here’s the thing—your inner slate is designed to clear. It does so all of the time and when it does, you’re back to home base where fresh ideas and clarity abound.
Your inner slate may not feel like it clears, but that’s only as we pay so much attention to the habitual stuff that shows up. Look for innovative thought, and you’ll discover it. Look for how your slate clears, and you’ll see evidence of it.

When you feel confident, you’re warmer. When you feel confused, you’re older. Here is a simple rule of thumb: When you feel clear and confident—like you’re simply of the world, not thinking about it so much—you can trust your conclusions and decisions. When your brain has relatively little on it, matters feel easy. You can trust that feeling. Conversely, when you’re feeling mentally confused or lacking confidence, your conclusions or decisions are less trustworthy. They are being guided by a lot of personal thoughts, subjective, biased in those moments, so they aren’t decisions you need to bet on. Start to become suspicious of what you think when you’re not feeling clear or confident. Wait until you are in a more confident or clearer place to trust your thoughts. It’s much easier that way.

Good choices make themselves. Think about some of the good choices you ever made. Those decisions pretty much made themselves, didn’t they? There is almost a feeling of you not having a choice to make at all. It doesn’t feel like you “choose” the people you love, for example, or that you “pick” to do the matters you most love to do.
Not all resolutions will feel like that, that’s for sure, but some will emotion closer to that end of the spectrum while others will feel further away.  At the far end, conclusions might feel very mental and effortful, as if you are slugging through figures and facts, pros, cons to create them. Those decisions are based on personal thought, opinion, and judgment, all of which are subject to change.

Timelines and limitations are self-imposed and illusory. I know you might be arguing with me right now but I’m going to say it anyway as most of the limitations and timelines you put on your choices are self-imposed and arbitrary. You have far more liberties than it may seem. You are far more able to take some flexibility with your effort and time than you may be used to admitting.

Confusion can make us emotion stressed, anxious, powerless, and a whole host of other draining feelings. You discover every journey and likelihood of the circumstance at high speed with divine clarity.

What is a “wrong” choice, anyway? That you could possibly make an incorrect option is another illusion. It can certainly emotion that way. But calling an alternative wrong is your opinion. Inspirational blogs aid in opinions aren’t reality, they are opinions. Opinions change, too. If you faith a decision you’ve made is or could be wrong—how do you know? There are always various ways of lookout things and your entire outlook can change in an instant.

You always have another chance to choose again. When you let your internal cover clear, and you stay in the moment rather than mentally living in the future or in the past, you discover that you can always select again. If you don’t like the motion you build, make another move. The only issue would be if you decided that selecting again is not fine. But if you are fine with having (and maybe making) an infinite number of do-overs, you can pick again as often as you’d like.

Follow the energy. There is momentum and energy within you. It is moving you towards clarity. It is wise and safe to let that motion guide you.
What this means is that when you step away from your opinionated, personal thinking and just be in the moment, you reconnect with your inborn clarity and you get ideas. You get pulled towards something. Follow that pull. It has your wise interest at heart and will do most of the tough work in resolution-making if you let it.

Create space. Your brain has to process everything that crosses your field of vision. If your work or home environment is messy and cluttered, the clutter results in brain fog. You can’t live thoughtfully or work effectively in chaos. Crystal Clear the clutter and reset to zero at least once a week. 

Identify what matters. Pen down your passion statements for life and work. What really matters to you? Passion statements aren’t maybes, they are a must.

Do one thing at a time. When you are writing, write. When you are doing the dishes work, do the dishes. You don’t want Twitter, TV, Email, and 12 other matters going on at the same time. Submerge yourself in the task at hand.

Remove distractions. You may be so used to the dings and beeps from your mobile and flashing messages on your computer screen that you don’t understand how distracting they are. It can take a few minutes or more to recover from even a small disturbance. Turn off notifications and if you can’t withstand the pull of your devices, turn them off when you are doing some other work. When you register that most of your distractions are self-imposed, it’s not difficult to delete them.

Eat well. Your mind doesn’t have to rely on sugar and caffeine to function. Prove it by eliminating the stimulating substances you think you require for a few weeks. Then begin adding more natural ignite like greens and fresh fruit.

Get quiet. Set aside a few times to get meditate and/or quiet every day. Even just a few minutes is enough to delete internal distractions and mental chatter.

Write to get clear. Write for a few times every morning. If you are experiencing good clarity, pen it down. If you can’t get clear, pen that down too. Sometimes you can pen out the distraction and get down to good clarity.

Experiment. You don’t know what you don’t know. If you need clarity about the meals that best ignite you, the habits that better your life, or the work you require to do, experiment. Learn through experiments and experience.

Put your everything where your heart wants to be. That’s the trick and there is nothing more to it. Shut up and get into the studio. Once your physical envelope is standing before the frame of support, your brain and heart will come after. If you want to pen up, plant your backside in front of the typewriter. Later or sooner your fingers will settle onto the keys. Not long after that, I promise, the Almighty will slip invisibly but powerfully into the space.

Always challenge your never. Motivational quotes lead to what if we never are what we require most, but because we don’t want to fail, or hurt or expose ourselves to disappointment, we keep them in the never list? As soon as you think, I could never go without this that or I could never do that challenge your never. They are usually exactly what you want for pure clarity.