Are You Falling for One of These 7 Excuses? (Spoiler: They're All Fear)

I don't really hit my podcast.

I record it.

But anyway, I just thought I'm going to share with you how to firstly get better at recognizing what's actually a fear and snapping out of that a little better.

Because I think so many of us are living in fear mode, right? Where fear is quietly running the show of our lives.

It's picking what we say yes to, what we say no to, what we talk ourselves out of, how small we let ourselves stay.

And the whole goal, honestly, the reason I do what I do so much of the heart of it is to help get you out of fear mode and into living mode, where we actually live our lives rather than avoiding it.

Yeah.

Novel thing that, imagine actually living while we're alive.

Wouldn't that be nice? So I wanted to record this episode for all about that because sneer, sneer.

I went to say fear and it came out sneer because I was going to say fear is sneaky.

It's sneer.

But honestly, fear, as I said, never really shows up wearing a name tag that's like, hi, I'm fear.

Nice to meet you.

It shows up often as a very reasonable sounding excuse.

So today, I want to hold up the most common excuses that I hear in my clients, in myself, and translate what each one is really telling you about your fear underneath it and firstly recognizing that.

Because then once you recognize it, you can begin to change how you relate to that fear, which I'm telling you will change your whole life, but we'll just start there.

with this.

So I've got, I don't know how many excuses, but I'm sure a lot of them will sound familiar to you.

They definitely sound familiar to me.

So I'm going to recognize the fear and then give you an instant mindset shift and reframe on that fear.

So excuse number one, of course, we say, so often is I just don't have the time.

Like that's the classic one, right? And look, sometimes you generally are flat out, which I don't know if that translates over here in America.

I'm pretty sure I said that to someone once and they gave me a look like, why are we lying flat? Flat out means super busy.

Um, but truthfully, so often I don't have time is another way how we hide, how we let our fears dictate because it's like, well, if I'm this busy, then I never have to go sit still long enough to face that really uncomfortable thing I'm avoiding.

Like I really want to apply for that job, but I don't have time to work on my resume or I really want to start that podcast.