Are you Scared of the "WHAT IFS"?

You will never be able to accomplish anything if you’re too afraid of the “what if.”

“The amateur believes he must first overcome his fear; then he can do his work. The professional knows that fear can never be overcome. He knows there is no such thing as a fearless warrior or a dread-free artist.”

― Steven Pressfield

• Fear of looking stupid

• Fear of what people will think about you

• Fear of letting people down

• Fear of letting yourself down. 

• It’s why you don’t shoot content. 

• It’s why you don’t pick up the phone and call people. 

• It’s why you don’t sit down to do the work.

• It’s why you procrastinate. 

Instead, what if you decided that the fear was something to embrace? What happens if you don’t feed the fear? It dies. 

The secret to success is not to wait until the fear is gone. Every successful person I know still has it. The difference is they break the pattern. They stop worrying about the what-ifs. They stop doomscrolling social feeds into envy and impostor syndrome. 

Think of this next time you feel fear. 

Instead of feeding it, shoot a piece of content, go for a walk, call a prospect, or pick up an instrument. Anything but feed the fear. 

“We can’t control the things that happen to us.

Only our reactions.

Things come and go

Emotions come and go

The important thing is to accept them all 

Embrace them all

Then you can choose to do with them what you want Versus being controlled by emotion

If you feed fear, it grows If you step back, it shrinks.”

-Kobe Bryant