Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

Your brain, it's number one job to keep you safe and protected. We'll prefer a known problem

to an unknown problem, hence the old saying, better the devil, you know. But is that

true? Think about it. When I worked in my corporate job, I realized as people started noticing my

side hustle, started noticing my life coaching, started noticing me in the media, building a business on the side. A lot of people

had questions, a lot of people had curiosity, but I just knew they would never go out on their own,

even if it's what they really wanted. Not because they're not talented and capable, wildly

competent and brilliant in some cases. It's because

most people will choose misery over uncertainty. Maybe it's staying in a job because, hey,

at least it's a sure thing or it seems that way for now. In reality, there are no safe jobs. Maybe it's a

relationship with a friend or a romantic relationship. It's not satisfying you, but better than being

friendless, better than being single, right? Wrong. If there's anything that I know,

it's that your relationship with uncertainty, your relationship

with the unknown and forging ahead anyway, is going to determine the quality of your entire life.

That's why people who are called brave or courageous or lucky aren't blessed or born under a special star, they're willing to move

forward in uncertain conditions. And really, let me hammer this in here with this statement.

We've never lived in certain times. Tell me one time in your life, one day in your life,

you've had complete certainty. It is impossible.

But we will do our very best to manufacture it to create a semblance of it by staying in routines

that keep us stuck, that keep us small, engineering small lives because what's over the distance feels far too threatening.

My friends, if you want to make a shift in your life, there is going to be some discomfort

that you will have to tolerate. But is it worth it to you? That thing that you dream of,

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