Leap Into Greatness: How to Overcome Your Brain’s Fear Tactics

You’ve got big dreams and goals completely outside your career.

They’re the dreams and goals that light you up inside and terrify you simultaneously.

You’re finally going to write your novel, become an artist, or maybe master the craft of Japanese woodworking.

All of which are firmly on the other side of your comfort zone.

When you decide to challenge yourself and move beyond your comfort zone, you feel like you’re standing on the edge of a cliff on a windy day.

You’re staring into an abyss and can’t see the bottom.

Your brain will do everything in its power to pull you away from the edge and back to the comfy sofa of complacency.

Your brain tells you (with great confidence, mind you):

You’ll look like a fool.

You’ll fall flat on your face.

You don’t know what you’re doing.

It will fail, meaning you’re a failure.

You’re not the type of person who does this type of thing.

You’ll be judged and criticized, maybe even laughed at.

Plus, a litany of other terrible commentary.