Time To Get A Return?

The best way I have found of restoring my confidence in my professional ability is the get right out and do the work.

It is easy to procrastinate when we are fearful of a blank canvas. What if we begin in the wrong place or if we make a bad mark or if we look silly in the process? Lots of good reasons to postpone starting would you agree?
We can tell ourselves we are not adequately qualified and a PhD would help us feel more secure. We can sit in a place of dreaming but ‘know’ we aren’t really capable of actually doing it. We can talk about it and feel all the feelings without actually doing it or gaining the rewards in fiscal or emotional terms. We can analyse the best place to start in order to ‘realise’ our ten year plan. We can sit in regret of time passing, watching others risking and succeeding as the years pass…. 

Why? Because we are frightened.
What’s the best remedy for fear? To face it and do it. If you need to sit and read “feel the fear and do it anyway” then go for it. Or, you can summons all your courage, take a deep breath and step out into the world. This is where we can evidence our success and our strengths.
It is only when we get out of our heads and take action that we ever know what the outcome will really be. This is when we are open to all the opportunity and the learning that awaits us. Is it time you got a return, for all that thinking and planning and plotting? Might it be time you got your chance to celebrate?

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