What if the very thing you’re doing to feel more secure is actually making your life smaller?
We all want control. We want to know our kids will turn out okay, our relationships will last, our plans will work, our health will hold up, and the future will unfold the way we expect.
But there’s a paradox: the more certainty you demand, the fewer risks you can take.
In this episode of Creating the Future, Dr. Brent Simpson explores the illusion of control—why our desire to control outcomes can actually be rooted in fear, why successful people may be especially susceptible to it, and how our need for certainty can keep us from stepping into the future God is calling us to create.
We’ll talk about:
- Why having more control over the little things may make us less comfortable with uncertainty
• The psychology behind the “illusion of control”
• Why successful people can easily confuse influence with control
• Abraham and what it means to have direction without knowing the destination
• The difference between planning and presumption
• Why insecure leadership can become controlling leadership
• How control can quietly cost us peace, relationships, opportunities, creativity, and faith
• The difference between responsibility and control
• Two questions to ask when something in your life is creating anxiety
You cannot create the future while demanding certainty about the future.
There are things that are yours to do—and there are things that were never yours to control.
Do what belongs to you. Then trust God with what doesn’t.
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Keep dreaming, keep building, and keep creating the future God designed for you to create.
