Here's the thing, I can talk in cliches until I'm blue in the face, but setting out to reach our goals is terrifying and completely overwhelming no matter how you slice it. It's hard enough to let ourselves dream of that distant far off mountain we'd like to reach, but once you sit down to the brass tacks of actually making a map and figuring out how you are going to get from point A to point B, things start going a bit lopsided.
The problem comes in when we start to realize just how much work and effort it's actually going to take to get to that damn mountain.
It's easy to dream and say someday, but when we are faced with a physical map and a plan of action we start making excuses for why not, why it's too hard, why we'll never make it, why we can't. It can almost be comical how ridiculous we can get with this mindset. Larry Smith does an amazing job of pointing this out in his TED talk "Why you will fail to have a great career".
"You're afraid to pursue your passion. You're afraid to look ridiculous. You're afraid to try. You're afraid you may fail." - Larry Smith
It's so easy once we create our roadmaps to become suddenly paralyzed by them instead of encouraged by them. The journey seems so overwhelming we are simply unable to begin it. But a mountain is never conquered in one giant leap, it is scaled slowly, one step at a time. Even if the step you can take today is small, you are still one step closer to your dream than if you let your fear of failure paralyze you from even beginning the journey.
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