I had an immense amount of anxiety, I had a immense amount of fear, I had an immense amount of what's wrong with me that I don't want this.

And when I look back, what I was really experiencing

was that I was creating a life I didn't want.

That you could experience the same thing in a job.

You can experience it in many things.

I see now that the pathology of anxiety is not having access to choice.

Because if you have access to your voice, you get to choose your life.

If you can't share how you feel and have access to a yes or a no. your life gets steered based on where you let it. And now I can look back and be like holy that was the first moment where I made a choice in so many

years I can't even remember the last time where it one hurts someone else and

two it meant that I could be judged by everybody around me.

Hello friends and welcome back to the Light Watkins show. I'm Light Watkins and I love to interview ordinary folks just like you and me

who've taken extraordinary leaps of faith in the direction of their path, their purpose, or what they've identified as their

mission in life.

And in doing so, they've been able to positively impact and inspire the lives of many other people who've either heard about their story or who've witnessed

them in action or people who've directly benefited from their work.

And what I found after conducting hundreds of interviews with

luminaries who have discovered their purpose is that there was always a moment

where they hit upon some sort of internal crossroads where they could have either gone in the direction of fitting in or they could go in the direction of being themselves.

And 99.9% of the time, the people who ended up finding their calling were the ones who chose

and sometimes against all of the odds to be themselves.

It's really that simple.

And I think that we need to hear these stories over and over and over in order to build up the courage and the confidence to do the same thing in our lives, to keep choosing to be ourselves because it's not about just making one choice in order

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