More times than we’d like to admit.
How often have you been convinced something would go wrong… and it didn’t?
Certain a deal was dead… and it came back?
Assumed someone was upset… only to find out they weren’t?
It happens all the time.
Our minds are wired to predict and protect—but also to exaggerate. We fill in the blanks with emotion—fear, excitement, doubt—and then treat those feelings like certainty. They feel real… but they’re not always true.
If you look at your own track record, you’ll see it clearly: a large percentage of what you felt would happen… never actually did.
That’s the lesson.
Feelings are signals—not conclusions. They deserve awareness, but not authority.
This is where emotional intelligence separates professionals from amateurs. The discipline to pause, to sit with the feeling, to reflect, to pray if that’s your practice—and to wait for facts to surface.
Because they will.
With time, clarity comes. Patterns emerge. Truth shows up.
So the next time a strong feeling tells you a story—good or bad—remember this:
You’ve been wrong before.
Pause first. Then proceed.