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'If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck... it's a duck.' So the saying goes. The implication is that we ought not to spend too much time questioning the obvious. Life is already full of mysteries without the need to create more. But if it looks, walks and quacks like a duck, maybe it is a clever piece of animatronics! We can't rule this out. Or, more to the point, we can't rule out the idea that you're now reacting to a factor that seems very real and immediate but may yet turn out to be irrelevant. Don't underestimate your own intelligence. Don't assume that someone knows more than you, understands a situation more deeply or has a better grasp of what's needed. I'm not trying to encourage you to be arrogant. You must, of course, stop and ask questions. It's healthy and valuable to go through a process of self-doubt. But it's not okay to let that doubt feed a sense of inadequacy and insecurity. A delicate balancing act must now be performed in the interests of a right and fair decision. You can do this.The questions that most need to be answered in your life now are probably the ones to which you think you already know the answers. You're so sure of your facts, your figures or your feelings about a particular matter that there's no longer even the faintest flicker of doubt in your mind. Wherever else things could be thought about twice, it isn't 'here' or 'there'. Don't be so sure. In the nicest possible way, for the best possible reason, there's now a great advantage to be gained through reopening a 'closed casebook.
'If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck... it's a duck.' So the saying goes. The implication is that we ought not to spend too much time questioning the obvious. Life is already full of mysteries without the need to create more. But if it looks, walks and quacks like a duck, maybe it is a clever piece of animatronics! We can't rule this out. Or, more to the point, we can't rule out the idea that you're now reacting to a factor that seems very real and immediate but may yet turn out to be irrelevant. Don't underestimate your own intelligence. Don't assume that someone knows more than you, understands a situation more deeply or has a better grasp of what's needed. I'm not trying to encourage you to be arrogant. You must, of course, stop and ask questions. It's healthy and valuable to go through a process of self-doubt. But it's not okay to let that doubt feed a sense of inadequacy and insecurity. A delicate balancing act must now be performed in the interests of a right and fair decision. You can do this.The questions that most need to be answered in your life now are probably the ones to which you think you already know the answers. You're so sure of your facts, your figures or your feelings about a particular matter that there's no longer even the faintest flicker of doubt in your mind. Wherever else things could be thought about twice, it isn't 'here' or 'there'. Don't be so sure. In the nicest possible way, for the best possible reason, there's now a great advantage to be gained through reopening a 'closed casebook.
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