#539 – What changes when you remove the fear?

The biggest paralyzer in decision-making is fear. Faced with a decision, we believe it's our duty to ensure it leads to a specific outcome. And so we run every possible scenario until we know what the right decision is.

Well, keep dreaming.

These days, cooking only for my son and me, I've noticed more creativity in the kitchen. Knowing he eats everything I cook with delight is like getting a blank check, a failproof guarantee for my culinary imagination. I decide what to make faster, and make it more decisively, throwing in ingredients I already have.

So, in effect, this pre-granted approval is an efficiency and internal peace booster.

I realized this yesterday, at the all-hands-on-deck emergency meeting with the Manager of the AI project I'm working on.

The goal was for us writers to speed up our process, because the client needed more data, sooner.

As he went through the potential blocks we might be experiencing, wanting to avoid low scores surfaced as the main one. We writers feared being told we were wrong (in the form of a "failing" score), and so we obsessed over every detail before hitting submit.

The Project Manager then assured us that no one would lose their jobs for failing scores, and that, now, "volume" preceded perfection. "Remove the fear" became the mantra.

I reviewed other aspects of my life where "remove the fear" would be helpful. Basically, all of them!

Removing the fear not only makes me more decisive, it also gives me peace, because I know that I'm not in charge of the outcomes of my decisions. So I might as well live in alignment with my values and accept life as it comes.

What will change for you when you remove the fear?

Love,

Carolina