Hello There,
The fear is not the problem. The wait is the problem.
You have been treating the fear as the signal to stop when it was always the signal that something matters. The specific, reliable, shows-up-every-time-without-fail activation of your threat response right before the action that requires courage is not wisdom. It is the pattern defending itself. And you have been letting it win for long enough.
I recorded a full episode on this. On what courage actually is not the absence of fear but the decision to move before the internal conditions feel optimal. On what your brain is doing when the fear peaks right before the action and why the peak is the last defense of the avoidance pathway and not a signal of actual danger. On the man who spent two years preparing a podcast that did not exist. On the woman in the hospital parking lot whose three years in the notes app came into sharp, clarifying focus the moment time became real.
Go listen. The whole thing. Because the thing in your notes app has been waiting long enough.
Then come find me.
I am Branden LaNette. Podcast Coach. Your mess is your message. The specific mess of the undone thing the podcast that is planned but not recorded, the message that is developed but not delivered, the calling that is real but not yet in the world where it was supposed to live that is exactly the mess I work with. Every day. And the people I work with do not leave with a better plan. They leave with the first episode recorded. With the thing that was in the notes app in the ears of the person who needed it. With the specific aliveness of someone who finally stopped negotiating with the fear and took the step.
The step changes the physics. The water holds when you commit your weight to it. Every single time.
The Peace patch from Superpatch is in the show notes drug-free, no ingredients, vibrotactile technology that tells your nervous system it is supported enough to act despite what it feels. For the body that is about to do the brave thing and deserves the physical support of a nervous system that is not running at maximum threat response. Link in the show notes.
Check the show notes. Come work with me. The notes app has held it long enough.
