A long time ago, someone I deeply admired and respected told me that I was led by fear. At the time, I found it enormously insulting and dismissed it almost immediately. Granted, I’m not the sort of person who will be bungee jumping, skydiving or swimming in the ocean anytime soon, but I had made enormous changes, started a whole new career, put myself out there in situations that would normally have made me uncomfortable and my only thought was, “you don’t know anything about me.”

However, in more recent years I have been forced to admit to myself that in some areas of my life, they were right. Not in an over-the-top or all consuming way, but in the quieter decisions I make, the things I hesitate over and the situations I approach with caution instead of confidence.

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