Hi guys and welcome back to the show. You are listening to style your mind. I am your host

Cara Allwell and this is your champagne thought of the day. Today I want to talk about how

we sometimes hold back our true potential and hold back the things we really really want

to do in this world because we're afraid of what other people are going to think of us.

I will never forget almost seven years ago I was at my full-time job and I was ready

to quit. I was ready to make the move and I will never forget how I felt the day that

I actually said those words. I was in my office, I worked on the 40th floor and my boss

was on the 47th floor and it was a warm, sticky September afternoon and have you ever been

in an office building where it's really air conditioned and then you go into the stairwell

and it's like hot and just dark and sticky and I remember opening that door to the stairwell

walking down those stairs to his office and reciting everything I was going to say in my head

over and over again and I was about to give my notice and walk away from an eight-year career

where I had followed all of the rules, I had received all the promotions, I had aced all the

performance reviews, the job where I was highly respected where I graciously collected my steady

paycheck every two weeks and the job was fine but it wasn't allowing me to live up to my full

potential as a bright creative driven woman and I didn't want to find anymore, I wanted so much more.

I agonized over that decision to leave my job for years, I was going to do it initially in 2013

and I waited an entire year until 2014 because other people's concerns quickly became mine.

Other people's voices about why I shouldn't leave, why I was making a mistake, why it was a risk,

why I had a good thing, those became the loudest voices in my head.

I couldn't even hear my own intuition anymore, until one day my body just started moving toward

that stairwell and there was literally nothing I could do to stop it, it was like a force just took

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