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American Designer Kelly Wearstler said to ‘Take risks;’ you don’t have a voice if you don’t. You have to venture outside your boundaries. That’s what life’s all about.”
You know, as I mull over this quote, I am struck with just how much risk is involved with becoming a disrupter of your Status Quo.
I am also struck by how whenever Risk arrives, Fear shows up riding on her coattails like an unwanted boyfriend.
Fear of the unknown tells us that Risk is scary, that trying something new could leave you feeling vulnerable. Fear tells us that Risk is not “safe”, it is the unknown, the what if that begins every unspoken sentence of every person stuck in the Status Quo.
And yes, if we let Fear drive, it will push Risk to the ground like a schoolyard bully and control you and your circumstances, robbing you of your voice.
Just thinking about this raises a few other what if questions.
What if you simply opened your mouth and said no? Out loud?
What if just once when Risk appears, we opened the door wide and invited her in?
What if we pushed Fear aside telling her No, not this time, you’re not invited?
What if you simply opened your mouth and said no? Out loud? In front of everybody. Just say no, it is a complete sentence and does not require further explanation.
And what if every time Fear reappeared you said it again. And again. And again. As many times as it takes.
Go ahead. Try it. If you say it enough and believe it and go ahead and do what seemed risky a second ago, you move beyond the fear, the self-constructed boundaries that have held you back so long and into the life that you’ve only dreamt of before today.
So go ahead, use your voice, say it out loud. What do you have to lose?
Your Life awaits.
Trudi Lunnie-Thomas, BA, MA is a Life and Executive Coach for Woman on Fire Coaching and Consulting and Host of the Woman On Fire Radio. Her goal is to help her clients to disrupt the patterns established as part of their Status Quo, the habits, and limitations that control every part of their lives so that they can reclaim who they really are and how to live their lives to the fullest. To continue the conversation, please come over to my blog at www.thearena.online. Thank you and go out and disrupt your Status Quo!
