How do we know when to push through?

“The real trick in life is to turn hindsight into foresight that reveals insight,” Robin Sharma

As a highly determined Capricorn, I have a tendency to push for things. There have been times that this has served me well -and other times it has not. The question is: How do we know when to push through? I’ve been reflecting on a couple of instances in particular in order to turn hindsight into insight.

Instance 1:

The first time I launched myself as self-employed in Italy, I got scared and applied for part time work at a school for ‘security’. The day of the interview, my partner had mistakenly taken both sets of keys and so I was locked in. In order to get to the interview, I risked life and limb and climbed out the 1st floor window, scrambled across an arch and down through a building site. I ended up having a terrible experience teaching at this school and regretted the whole thing!

Instance 2:

A year ago, I sent an email to the village hall to book Friday mornings for my Zumba® class. When I got no reply, I listened to that voice in my head telling me it would cost too much anyway and I would never get enough people. Instead, I spent a year trying out smaller church halls on the days that they were available. Finally, this year I tried emailing the hall again about Friday morning. Feeling more confident now, I sent multiple emails until I booked it. At last, we are in the right venue, on the right day, and we kick off our weekend filling the hall with energy, community and fun.

So what’s the lesson? In both instances I made my decision of whether to push through or not based on fear and insecurity. In both cases my intuition would have told me what I really wanted. So that is the insight I will be turning into foresight: push for what you really want.

• Are you pushing for something out of fear or insecurity?

• What do you really want?

• What is stopping you from pushing for it?

• How can you turn hindsight into foresight that reveals insight?