What Does It Take to Start Before You Feel Ready?
Dear Big Selfer,

Last weekend, I realized how often I pass on life’s opportunities just because they feel “too hard.”

My friends were staying over and I had many ideas for what I wanted to do together. A cacao ritual around the fire. Interviewing them for my next book. Playing a complex boardgame that I hadn’t tried before.

Unfortunately, none of that happened. All of those ideas were great opportunities but they demanded some organizing and planning. And in the past few days, organizing and planning somehow felt beyond me.

You can say there’s nothing wrong with that — and I would agree. Sometimes, we just don’t feel at our best. We’re tired. All we want to do is stay in our protective shell and entertain the thought that something’s too difficult for us.

We tell ourselves that we’re not ready and so, we let opportunities pass us by. Now, I don’t know about you — but I’ve certainly missed out on things just because I didn’t realize I could do them without feeling ready.

This is what the past week at Big Self was also about. We published a few in-depth articles describing that place in the mind where you can take on challenges without feeling prepared for them.

And let me break this out to you right away: That place is more ambiguous than some “feel-the-fear-and-do-it-anyway” self-help gurus would have you think.
['Marta Brzosko']
['Burnout', 'Challenge', 'Psychology', 'Self', 'Big Self']