🚩Sometimes Fear Isn’t a Red Flag🚩 · The Good Life Collective

Tunja Cottier

23d • Learning & Growth

🚩Sometimes Fear Isn’t a Red Flag🚩

It’s a Green Light! 💚

Your brain isn’t always trying to help you grow. Sometimes it’s trying to help you stay safe.

I was having a conversation with one of my daughters, Hannah tonight after she’d applied for a new job.

A job she genuinely wants.

A job that could be a positive step forward.

A job that would get her out of a workplace she no longer enjoys.

Yet within minutes, her brain had already produced a list of reasons why it might not work.

What if the extra hours are too much?

What if the parking costs too much?

What if I can’t handle the change?

What if I’m making a mistake?

And honestly?

I think we’ve all been there.

The funny thing is, our brains aren’t necessarily trying to sabotage us.

They’re trying to protect us.

Because your brain loves what is familiar, even when what’s familiar is making you miserable.

It would often rather keep you in a situation you dislike than risk stepping into something unknown.

The problem is that growth, opportunity, new friendships, new careers, new businesses and new adventures all live on the other side of “I’ve never done this before.”

If you’re standing at the edge of a decision right now and your brain is throwing every possible worst-case scenario at you, it doesn’t automatically mean you’re making the wrong choice.

Sometimes it simply means you’re doing something brave.

💛 What’s one thing you’ve done recently that scared you a little but turned out to be exactly what you needed?

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🚩Sometimes Fear Isn’t a Red Flag🚩