Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

Here is a lesson that I learned years ago when I was 15 years old from the book, The Magic of Thinking Big.

It's this, I repeat it often if you're in my work, in my world, you'll hear me say it again and again and there's no way around it.

Only action cures fear. Think about it. If you want to take a jump off a diving board as a kid and the pool looks kind of big and scary in your learning. Is it by standing there or reading books about

diving or psyching yourself up that you're going to jump? Or is it simply through jumping even when

you're afraid? There's an old saying that if you run towards a lion, it becomes a kitten.

And this obviously doesn't mean run towards any lions,

but it's saying, approach the thing that scares you, and you'll realize it was nothing, it was paper,

it could blow away. You know, it's interesting. Having worked in sales in the tech world for a long

time, I'd feel really nervous, especially if my boss or CEO were coming into a meeting

with me and I was leading the presentation. And what I would always notice is that in the lobby

waiting, my fear was at its loudest. As soon as I went into the boardroom and got started,

I was fine. I was calm because I was busy taking the action. Here's something else that's

important to know too. Avoidance, if you're avoiding something, it's teaching your anxiety. It's

teaching your brain that it's right. It's saying, look, we avoided that and we're okay.

Action is completely opposite.

It is showing you and revealing to you one action at a time that you're strong.

You can handle things.

You've got life.

Isn't that what resilience is?

Isn't that what grit is?

It's not waiting quietly in the corner,

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