Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

When something feels unfamiliar to you,

you've taken on something new,

or you're experiencing something

completely different in your life

or you find yourself in an unexpected situation, maybe even it's a good opportunity.

When something feels unfamiliar, sometimes our natural response is to believe that that's because we are incompetent somehow or that we are incapable of the thing

That's why it feels new and scary

But my friend

Unfamiliar is a wonderful place to be. It's like new territory, right? It's like if you haven't visited a city before or a town or a country, it's not going to feel familiar to you. That doesn't mean you shouldn't be there,

it doesn't mean you don't belong there, it doesn't mean you have no right to be there, it just

means, ah yes, it's unfamiliar. Time to get familiar. Time to get comfortable. Time to get to

know my way around. Time to get to explore. Just say for example you've never

been to London. You'll arrive there and there's the tube and that people speak

with a different accent and there's even different English expressions that we use that aren't

used in America for example. The fact that they're unfamiliar and you feel a bit like a fish out of water doesn't mean you are

incapable of being in London. You should not be here. Go back to your home. That's not what it means.

And yet, so often when we leave our comfort zone,

we equate it to that.

We're like, well, I shouldn't be giving this public speech,

or I shouldn't be around these people or this skill is unfamiliar to me and I guess I'll never figure it out.

No. Unfamiliar does not mean you're incompetent. It doesn't mean that something's wrong or bad. It just means good news. New territory to explore. Time to get comfortable. Our comfort zone is deceiving, right? Because it's soothing.

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