If it was easy you would have done it already.
Permission requires kindness.
Seeking permission from ourselves to take action towards our dreams has to include kindness. When you find yourself standing in a place, sometimes again, where you can’t “just jump” from, please don’t force yourself. You will probably get somewhere short term from taking an action, but you will have done it at a cost of relationship with yourself. If YOU won’t approach you with kindness and empathy when you run up against something that makes you stop in your tracks then who will?
So in a moment of the big freeze on the edge of the decision, when you feel like it will hurt you to go forward, pause. Show whatever part of yourself this is a lot of kindness. There are very good reasons why that freeze has become an instinct.
Be curious, think through the things that are on each side of the action ahead. The things that might happen if you do it. The things that won’t happen if you don’t. Be curious about the tools you have to deal with either situation. Do you need to find a different route? Are you more prepared for the outcome now than a past you believes? How?
And when you are ready, make a decision about what you want to do. The decision is the bridge, you don’t have to jump.
And if you don’t like what’s on the other side of any of your choices you can make another one and change it or come back. Once life isn’t just happening to you, but because of your conscious choice and creation you realise how much power you have in so many situations.
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