Though you may be hopeful that your expectations will be met today, you are likely nonetheless experiencing significant anxiety when ruminating on what the future will bring. If you have worked diligently to ensure that your immediate and long-term plans are thoughtful and rich with detail, you may have little doubt that you will achieve the success you desire. Although your innate insecurities may interfere with your optimism. You can calm your mind and regain your ability to gleefully gaze into your future by regularly affirming your capability, intelligence, and skillfulness. To still your negative inner voice, you may need to speak positive affirmations out loud each time you think a critical or pessimistic thought. Consider, today, the unlikelihood of the universe putting challenges in your path that you are incapable of facing.

Quieting your critical inner voice can help you look toward the future with earnestly optimistic eyes. Even when we are sure success is on the horizon, we may still gaze upon what is to come with trepidation in our souls. Our conjectures regarding whether we will be capable of handling the uncertainties and challenges of the future can overwhelm us. Most of what you fear, however, will likely never come to pass and is merely an invention of your inner critic. Silencing this critic with courage allows you to disregard the patterns that have shaped your past and to concentrate wholeheartedly on boldly approaching the unknown and looking forward to the success that is to come. As your courage gradually overwrites your inner critic today, your optimism will return.