What If Fear Has Been Making Your Choices for You?

Ever wonder how many of your choices are actually made by fear?

Like, the real decisions…
Not what you wear or what you eat,
but who you talk to.
What you try.
What you avoid.

This week’s episode is personal for me, because it’s not just about anxiety.
It’s about what happens when you stop letting fear quietly make all the decisions in your life.

🎧 Listen here: Stop Letting Fear Choose Your Life (Do This Instead)

💡 The Courage Challenge List

I created this episode because I’ve seen the same pattern again and again:

Brave, smart, creative people getting stuck and not because they’re unmotivated, but because anxiety convinced them to wait for the “right” time.

So I flipped the script.
And built a tool that helps you face your fear in small, doable steps instead of waiting until you're “ready.”

It’s called the Courage Challenge List.

It’s not about being fearless.
It’s about acting anyway, even with sweaty palms and a racing heart.

This list becomes your proof that you can do hard things.
That even when fear is loud… you are louder.

🛠 Try this today:

Take 3 minutes.
Write down three things that make your heart race (in a good-but-scary kind of way).

Then circle the one that feels the least terrifying.
That’s your Level 1 challenge.

📅 Now pick a day this week to do it. I recommend Fridays.
(You'll hear why in the episode.)

The goal isn’t perfection.
The goal is action.

Because confidence doesn’t come before courage, it comes after.

🎯 What This Episode Helps You Do:

✅ Identify how fear is secretly calling the shots
✅ Create a personal “challenge ladder” to take brave action at your pace
✅ Use practical strategies to follow through on things that matter to you
✅ Stop waiting until you're ready and start building the life you actually want

🎧 Listen here now or save it for a walk, a car ride, or when your overthinking is especially loud.

If fear has been holding the pen in your story…
It’s time to take it back.

You don’t need to feel 100% ready.
You just need to be 1% willing to try.

That’s where courage grows.

Keep moving forward,
Jessica
Mindset Coach for Anxious Teens & Young Adults

P.S. Want help putting your Courage Challenge List into action?
Join the 90-Day Courage Challenge starting soon.
It’s designed to help you move through fear, one brave step at a time.
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