Q: Have you ever noticed that the thing you want most is the thing you keep avoiding?
A: It might not be laziness. It might be fear.
Fear of failure is fairly self-explanatory — most of us really don’t want to fail, and we’ll do quite a lot to avoid the possibility.
But fear of success? That one is sneakier. And it’s just as real.
Here’s how it tends to work: if I achieve this goal, then what? What if it’s not as amazing as I imagined? What if I succeed, and then there’s all the pressure of maintaining that success? What if I get there and then fail from a much higher place?
Sometimes, without even realizing it, we keep ourselves just below the finish line. We work hard. We look busy. We have the goal. We just never quite get there.
Not because we can’t. But because some quiet part of us is scared of what comes next.
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