About this quote

Feeling fear is normal and it will show up whether you want it to or not. What matters is whether you let that feeling decide your next move. Break the task into a single, tiny action you can do right now and commit to it. If the step still feels too big, shrink it again until your body can do it — keep doing the smallest reliable action until the doing becomes easier.

When to use it

• Before I call the client to ask for a higher fee, I tell myself I can be scared and then I press dial anyway.
• Right before defending my thesis in front of the committee, I remember I’ll be nervous but I focus on the first sentence I’ll speak.
• At the clinic before my surgery, I admit to the nurse that I’m shaking and then I follow the breathing and pre-op steps I practiced.
• Standing at the start line of the race, I let the jitters be there and concentrate on taking the first steady stride.