What are you doubting right now?

Not the thing you're sure won't work out. The thing that might actually be right.

A client of mine had been questioning whether he was in the right role. Second-guessing decisions he'd already made, replaying them, looking for the crack that would prove he'd gotten it wrong. Underneath it was a low hum of doubt about someone who worked for him too. He wasn't sure the person was trustworthy. No real evidence either way, just a nagging feeling he couldn't quite locate.

There's a pattern worth naming here. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar teaches something close to this. Trust the positive as much as you do the negative. Doubt your doubts. It's not just about what we believe of ourselves. It shows up in how we read other people too. We doubt someone's good qualities and take their flaws as settled fact. A colleague does something generous and we wonder what they're really after. A colleague does something careless and we don't question it for a second.

My client was doing both versions at once. Doubting his own good decisions. Doubting someone else's good character.

We worked through what would change if he flipped it. Not forcing certainty where none belonged, just noticing where he'd already made up his mind about the negative and asking why the positive didn't get the same benefit.

With the role, he landed somewhere clear. He chose to trust that he was where he was supposed to be. He had chosen the best available choice at the time. Once he did, the day-to-day looked different. Even the rough days stopped feeling like evidence he'd made a mistake, and started reading as part of the process. Learning, not failing.

What are you doubting about your own decisions that you'd never question if it were bad news instead of good?

And who in your life have you already decided is guilty of something, on evidence you wouldn't accept for anyone's good qualities?