What exactly are you afraid of?

What's holding you back?

As the giant rock you inhabit spins to the universe,

a speck in a galaxy of stars.

It's easy to look out and see the vastness of the world around you.

And forget entirely about the strength that you possess.

Forget entirely that the mind's capacity is as infinite as those same stars that surround you.

I don't think it's that we definitively choose to sell ourselves short.

I think we simply lose sight of the fact that we have a say in the matter to begin with.

Our fears keep us wishing.

Our insecurities keep us hoping.

We stay standing still when we should be moving forward.

But truth be told, our pain comes from not doing, but wishing that we did.

It's no coincidence that the more we fail, the more we realize life is a game that expands as we push.

The power of making mistakes isn't the mistake itself, it's that when we get back up and brush

ourselves off, our cognitive mapping of the world changes.

We see that we can step out a little further.

Our very definition of what's possible expands and I believe that's what

courage is. The willingness to step into that chaos of life knowing that

each time you find the strength to push forward you are restructuring your

reality. The resources are there, the tools are there, the opportunity is there,

how crazy is the fact that we just need to convince ourselves that more is worth it.

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