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HOW TO CHOOSE
OVER
MELISSA AMBROSINI, BESTSELLING
AUTHOR + SPEAKER + PODCASTER
M
y first response was
to give her a hug —
because we’ve ALL been
there, and we all know
what fear feels like, and
how paralyzing it can feel.
But my second response? A loving-
but-serious, sent-with-love butt kick…
straight from my heart to her tushie.
Because here’s the thing: your
fear will always want you to stay
exactly where you are, doing
exactly what you’ve always done.
Always.
But if we do that — if we listen to
our inner Mean Girl’s whispers, if we
follow our fear instead of our heart…
we’ll continue to get what we’ve always
gotten, we’ll continue to do what
we’ve always done, and we’ll continue
to experience the same old results
we’ve always experienced before.
The only way to experience something
different (say, to call in a soulmate,
or to achieve a brand new goal, or
to increase your health, or to take
a new path in life) is to feel the
discomfort that fear brings and then
choose to take action anyway.
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