To FACE PALM or To FACE PLANT that is the question?

BY HOPE A. BEVILHYMER

Too Face Palm or Face Plant that is the question… You are probably wondering why I would want to do either.  By definition to Face Palm is to physically place your hands flat across your face in a gesture of frustration, embarrassment, shock, surprise or disappointment. To Face Plant is that you fall, and land directly on your face. In my metaphoric world these are very important in decisions I make.

I have Face Palmed many of times over choices and decisions I have made. Most of the Face Palming has occurred because I allowed fear to over run my decisions.  Fear by far can do damage so deep that it can be difficult to bounce back.  There have been opportunities and relationships where I have allowed the fear of the outcome to waiver my choices.  I started to realize awhile ago I don’t like to Face Palm myself.  I do not think anyone would like to do it over and over again.  With the frustration and disappointment that I was experiencing I figured this was not working and I needed a change.

One day I was faced with an opportunity to change my career choice.  I had other ideas of were I wanted my life to be and what I wanted to accomplish. All of these thoughts and ideas I had did not include my further employment with this company.   It made no logical sense for me to just up and quit.  By no means did I dislike the company I was working for.  They treated me well and I loved working with my coworkers.  Day in and day out it was eating at me that I needed to up and quit.  I had no back up employment…I knew I would be in a financial struggle…Then I let this little thing called Fear of the UNKNOWN creep up on me.  I started to doubt my decisions. I started to question everything about it.  It was driving me mad!

Then I thought to myself… You know what how many times have I faced fear in the eyes and won.  How many times have I thought that something is not going to work out and it just fixes itself?  I decided that day too FACE PLANT it… This was the action of letting go of all fears, all doubt, all hesitation, and all worries and just go for it.  When I let go of all those negative butt kickers and just FACE PLANTED, I quit that day. To this day it was one of the best choices that I made.

 I think of Face Planting is just that letting go of the negative and going all in with the decision or choice that you made. Sometimes the outcomes are not always what you hoped for, but you have learned something along the way.  So ask yourself before you make a choice or decision… Do you want to FACE PALM yourself because you should of… would of… could of… done something, but you let FEAR of the outcome to get in the way or Do you want to FACE PLANT and let go of all the negativity, fear and what if and see a beautiful landing that you will hear people say nice FACE PLANT..