Change is scary

Nobody likes change. We are creatures of habit and even the thought of change is scary and unnerving, it’s necessary, especially when it comes to growth and self-development.

In times of change I always think of Pocahontas (my life is basically a series of Disney quotes and quotes)

“ What I love most about rivers is
You can't step in the same river twice
The water's always changing, always flowing
But people, I guess, can't live like that
We all must pay a price
To be safe, we lose our chance of ever knowing”

When I decided to leave my job and go self-employed, it was not a decision I took lightly. Scared yes, excited… more so! I see it as a spectrum. You can either be nervous/scared or nervous/excited, I was the latter. There was, and still is, so much in the unknown. Will my ideas work? Will people use my services? Am I doing the right thing? I ask myself these questions almost daily and keep coming back to the same answer, who knows? What I do know however, is that if I don’t try i’ll never know the answers and for me that unknown is worse.

The thought of going to work for a corporate who take a massive cut from what I earn and squash my creativity because it doesn’t “fit standard protocol,” is enough to keep me working hard and driving forward with my ideas.

Yes, it’s scary. No, I don’t know what will happen or how it will turn out but I am willing to try and I will continue to focus on what I can control.

I am very grateful to those who are supporting me both professionally and personally and welcome anyone knew along for the ride.

Change is your friend, not your enemy. Embrace it.