11/06/2025
Fear and overthinking have a way of making things loom larger and larger in our minds. We imagine all the ways something could go wrong, all the obstacles, all the reasons it's too hard, and pretty soon a manageable task feels impossible.
But the moment you actually start to take that first step, make that phone call, write that first sentence, the task suddenly becomes concrete and real instead of this giant scary abstraction. You realize it's just a series of small, doable actions. Each step you take shrinks it further.
It's like the difference between standing at the bottom of a mountain in the dark versus actually climbing it in daylight. In the dark (fear), it seems impossibly huge. But once you're moving (action), you see it's just one foothold at a time, and you can see the actual path ahead.
The irony is that procrastinating out of fear actually makes the fear worse! It grows in your imagination. Action is the antidote. Even imperfect action. Even tiny action. Even five minutes of action.
