Not Looking Isn’t Going To Make It Disappear

There's something you’ve been avoiding looking at.

You know what it is. You thought of it before you finished reading that sentence.

The credit card statement.
The bank balance.
The scale.
The P&L.

Here's the real reason you're avoiding it.

While you don't look, it could still be fine.

There's a version of the number that's manageable, and as long as you don't check, that version stays alive.

Looking kills it.

So you're not protecting yourself from the problem. You're protecting a fantasy.

And when you do finally look, it's almost always less bad than the dread.

Not because the situation is good. Because the not-knowing has no floor. Your imagination fills the gap, and imagination doesn't deal in finite numbers.

The real number is just a number.

You can deal with just a number.
You can plan around just a number.
You can find a solution to just a number.

So pick one today.

The one you thought of in the first ten seconds.

You don't have to fix it.

You just have to stop paying the cost of not knowing.

If you know someone who would benefit from reading this, please forward it to them. It may change the trajectory of their life for the better, and the catalyst could be you.