Your Extraordinary Life Lay Beyond Your Fear and Self-Doubt

As we seek to create the extraordinary in our lives, fear, self-doubt, and impostor syndrome will come screaming into our minds.

The voice in our brain berates us with a laundry list of consequences that, according to our brain, are guaranteed to occur.

Failure. Judgment. Embarrassment.

The list goes on and on, and if left unchecked may be enough to keep us frozen where we are, existing in our bubble of comfort and complacency.

An extraordinary life cannot and will never be born from the bubble of comfort and complacency.

We write extraordinary life stories when we face head-on fear, self-doubt, and impostor syndrome. As Hemingway said,

“The shortest answer is doing the thing.”

Let’s say we do the “thing,” and our worst nightmare comes true.

The laundry list of fear happens.

All of our doubts, all of the sensations of being an impostor, flood our thoughts, and the voice that told us not to do the thing in the first place chimes in,

“See, I told you so. I warned you.”

We feel foolish in the harsh light of the voice being right.