They say that there are ample of things which might catch your eye but one must pursue what the heart desires. With this thought in mind one sets some goals and strives to achieve them. Many a times one hits the bulls eye. But at times as the goal is about to be hit, sometimes one gets struck with the worst possibility of not being able to achieve it due to some or the other reason. In such a situation one has to stand with either enough of new ventures or a fresh phase of striving for the current ones while going through the process of bouncing back to life. And such a process in itself is what can be called as ' being perplexed'.
Your thoughts lead to beliefs which lead to habits which lead to action. This is a commonly known process. Nevertheless, perplexity might cause a disturbance in the chain of thoughts to action.
You might run through myriad of ideas and thoughts. Each might scream and tell you that "Listen, I'm correct." Your mind might have a thousand thoughts about possibilities and ways in which each might take a turn. You might want to choose them all and secure yourself with enough of backups. Shortlisting one out of these could be a tumultuous task in itself. Every possibility starts showing you that way of light. You start judging and weighting each by the pros and cons that it provides. While the pros show you the benefits and green signals, the cons show you the risk taking factors and reasons why perhaps you should rule out this possibility.
While in the commotion of trying to fix on the best possibility the mind goes through a lot of muddled state of affairs. To begin with, you don't understand if, what you had thought as first arising possibility is going to sustain, the way it shows itself to be guaranteeing or will it fail. To avoid the mishap that might be caused by the first possibility you might end up saving a few backups each numbered from one to say ten. And then if you might think that backup one may fail due to so and so reason then I have back up two and so on.
One must zero on his/ her thoughts and backups very perspicuously. Substantially, the backups made need to be strong enough. Most importantly they need to be highly positive and motivated. This could be the best way to come out of perplexity of above kind. Once they are done with, a small tension of addled state sounds to relax.
Now, there are people who don't like keeping backups in life and steadfastly pursue what they wish to achieve. What drives such people is the oneness they have with their ideas and thoughts and having nothing to fall back on they have this immense striving willingness to make it happen at the first shot. Chances that they succeed due to this pursuit are very high as well. But failure due to no or not so strong backups in their case might cause a bit trouble and tribulation; at times even leading to thoughts of whether their decision was a wrong one. But with time and perseverance these people face the resilience of their minds and manage things far better than what they began with.
Ultimately, perplexity is just a state of mind and needs to be tackled with attacking it from what you think is the best way. Eventually, no matter whether one decides to keep backups or think single minded; what is important is to come out of the discombobulation and achieve your set goal.
