Uncertainty Is Okay

Uncertainty Is Okay

Multiple students recently have expressed that they feel a little lost. In life, primarily, but it’s also affecting their work.  Two separate people have told me that it feels heightened or more difficult because people on social media generally post the highlight reel of the great things they’re doing in their lives and it’s easy to convince yourself when you see that that you are somehow failing in life because you don’t really know what you want or where you are. 


Here’s what I want to remind you: None of us knows what we’re doing! 


To quote the singer Jessie J: “It’s okay not to be okay”

It’s also okay to not really know what you want out of life or out of your career. It will become clear eventually. Everybody is constantly just figuring it out. 


If you practice patience and make sure you pay attention, the world and everyone and everything in it will help guide you so that you don’t have to figure things out all by yourself.

What YOU can do is just continue to take the next step that’s in front of you.


I have just finished my second week of rehearsal for this new show that’s going to Broadway and there are a LOT of things that feel uncertain, uncomfortable and unknown - because we’re still figuring it out. 


This part of the process is necessary in order to arrive at a place where we know what we’re doing. Myself and the rest of the cast and creative team just keep showing up and doing the best we can. Tremendous progress is being made, but it can feel unnerving.  The same could be said about any uncertain periods of your life or your career.


If you feel a little lost right now, it might be EXACTLY where you need to be in order to arrive at a clearer place eventually. 


Be kind to yourself! You got this. 


KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!


Mark

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