You think you need 100% certainty before you move abroad. But 100% certainty requires experiencing something BEFORE you experience it. Which is impossible. So you keep researching. Reading expat blogs. Watching YouTube videos. Joining Facebook groups. Asking questions. Hoping that if you just consume enough information, you'll finally KNOW it's the right decision. But information doesn't create certainty. Experience does. And you're refusing to get experience until you have certainty. Which is backwards. When you start making decisions, you accept that certainty comes AFTER action, not before. You commit at 60% sure. You move. You adjust. You figure it out. THAT creates certainty. Not research. Doing. The people who actually moved? They felt the same uncertainty you're feeling right now. They just decided uncertainty was tolerable. Link in bio when you're ready to stop chasing certainty and start building it through action. 🆘🇺🇸 #CreatorSearchInsights #TikTokCreatorSearchInsightsIncentive
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Once you decide to move abroad and start that research process, everybody thinks that that research process is supposed to get you to 100% certainty. You want to know with clarity that this is the place and this is the path and this is exactly how you're going to do it. And that's the wrong approach. I stopped researching once I got to about 60% certainty. Once I kind of know the framework of what we're going to do or the plan and potentially a backup plan, then I'm done researching because I realized that you could never know all of the details. There will never be another person that was in your exact situation. You will never be able to find a blog that walks you through every detail just like you're going to experience it. Because I have tried, I have tried with extremely detailed instructions to follow that process to immigrate to a country. And there's always a difference and you'll go on every expat forum and say, "What about this situation that I'm in?" And people are like, "How could you even be in that situation?" Because it's a brand new problem. Because immigration offices create new problems for people constantly. And we're always reading new posts about people saying, "Oh, they're requiring this now or they made me do this." And all of us are baffled because that's not a requirement or we've never heard of that happening before. So your experience moving abroad is going to be unique to you and sharing it with the world is helpful. But it is not going to be some complete guide for anybody because their experience will be different. So stop trying to make decisions by getting to the point of 100% certainty. Instead, scale that back and be willing to make your decision when you're just reasonably sure that things are going to work the way that you think that they're going to work. And that's it. Then start the process because you will learn things along the way and you will need to adapt to the reality of the situation that nobody else has experienced before. That's my two cents after immigrating to three different countries is you should stop trying to delay the actual action based on doing more research. You just got to take the action and learn as you go. If you're ready to start the process of moving abroad and you want some assistance, I'm Veronica and I help Americans do just that. The links to work with me are in my bio.
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