Every day, like the invisible oxygen that gives you life, the fear that holds you back from pursuing, attempting, realizing, challenging, seeking, risking, stepping, leaping, initiating, asserting, organizing, collaborating, questioning or any other word you can think of for getting after what you really want to do and who you really want to be – every day that fear is the one and only question on your test.
Every day – every long and exhausting day of living with the shadow of that fear – you will take that test.
Every day, that is, until you wake up to the truth that there is no test.
There never was one.
There was only a decision.
DAVID BERRY is the author of “A More Daring Life: Finding Voice at the Crossroads of Change” and the founder of RULE13 Learning. He speaks and writes about the complexity of leading in a changing world.
