When You Deny Your Dreams, You Deny a Piece of Yourself. How Will You Ever Feel Whole?

Writing and publishing my memoir wasn’t easy.

Landing and delivering a TEDx wasn’t easy.

Running a successful Kickstarter campaign during a pandemic wasn’t easy.

In fact, there were times that these were absolutely horrible experiences — the fear, the doubt, the rejections, the overwhelming uncertainty.

Consistently stepping into the unknown, over and over in the face of doubt and fear,

“Who do you think you are?”
“You have no idea what you’re doing.”
“You’re going to fail, and your life will be over.”

Stepping into the unknown can feel like this — “your life will be over.”

This level of overwhelm makes it very easy to stay in the status quo, live life on automatic, settle for breadcrumbs and hide in plain sight.

But why do we so often focus on the fear of taking action?

But what about the cost of inaction? Why don’t we look at this more?

What is the cost of inaction? Regret, shame, and the erosion of our self-worth.

Because when we have a dream, goal, and passion — and we don’t take action…