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Postpone Your Impact, and It May Never Happen
You know how frustrating it is to have your flight delayed?
You remember flights, right? We’ll get back to them one day.
The reason flight delays are so frustrating is that you have somewhere you really want to go, and you’re not getting there. You’ve been put in a holding pattern until you take off for your destination.
We can put ourselves in a holding pattern too.
For a long time, I put off starting a podcast. I’m not ready, I said. I don’t know how to do it, I said. I’m scared to do it, I said. I’ve got too much going on, I said.
Those obstacles were real, in my mind. Turns out, they were excuses I used to avoid the discomfort of not knowing, the fear of not doing it well right off the bat, and, honestly, being intimidated by the impact I could have.
That last one was not a way I was used to thinking about myself. I was used to downplaying the impact that I could have. Turns out, that was another way I was “protecting” myself, this time from my ability to change the world in my own way. That required changing me, how I saw myself, and who I could grow into. It was change I was protecting myself from.
Finally, after some particularly masterful coaching, I was able to stop saying I had too much going on, and all…
