Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

I was watching this incredible video on YouTube when someone asked a lady who was 88

what she would tell her younger self.

And I've got to tell you, my friends, it is what a lot of people in their

advanced years say. She said, I wish I weren't so cautious. I was too cautious. This comes up a lot.

Often we look back at our lives with this sense of regret. What if? What if? In fact,

there's an old saying that what if, those are the two saddest words, the saddest question in the English

language. What if? I will tell you this. If you describe yourself or consider yourself a cautious person, that can be a wonderful thing.

Being cautious often means that we're simply responsible. But this is where we have to do a real

risk assessment. Is that thing that we want to go for or that opportunity that we want to seize

or that decision we want to make, is it really

that risky?

When I left my corporate job, I remember thinking the very worst thing that could happen

would be, I give my business a full swing of the bat, and if I don't like it, then after a certain

period, a few months, maybe a year, I will just go and get another job.

If I was cautious, if I put caution first, it never would have happened.

What about you?

Caution can feel responsible.

It can feel like we're doing the right thing.

It can feel as if we are simply protecting ourselves and taking

the care that we need. But sometimes caution can appear like the thing, like this lady said in her

80s, to perhaps have been the thing that actually stole your life. Where are you being too cautious?

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