A signpost of possibility.........

"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom."

-Soren Kierkegaard

Jonathan Fields talks fear and action.  Full post is here.  Excerpt here:

I’m nervous, my daughter shared as we walked with my wife to the staging area for a 4-mile obstacle run in the mountains…

For years, my default response to comments like this was to try to explain why there was no reason to be nervous. To try to defuse the anxiety and show how everything would be just fine. To eliminate the possibility of things not going as planned and make the unknown known, make the new old, even if just in appearance.

But, I began to realize that response was doing a disservice.

Because anything worth doing, any creative endeavor, any new experience will come with a healthy dose of uncertainty. With an inability to know how it’ll all work work out. Trying to paint a picture that turns unknown into known is not only unrealistic, but also frames uncertainty as a bad thing. And action in the face of uncertainty as something to be avoided.