“Everyone faces up more bravely to a thing for which they have long prepared.” - Seneca, Letters to Lucilius, CVII

We best attack our fears head on when we’ve prepared ourselves to deal with it. How do we prepare?

• Understand your truth and your fear, ask “what they’re for?”

• Determine how resistant you is rearing its ugly head and create a plan to silence it.

• Reflect: How might I attack my work, life, and everything more like a professional?

• Decide how you will confront fear - consider a decision journal.

• Visualize: yourself letting go - now that you’ve prepared, let go of everything and effortlessly perform. (thanks to my college professor, Charlene, for making us read, Inner Game of Music).

• Execute.

Put that way, being “brave”, feels more like a preparation and visualization process and less like a feeling summoned during times of stress.

Put that way, you get to decide now how you will prepare.

People Leaders: I cannot overstate the importance of creating and keeping a discipline around preparation and visualization when it comes to leadership and pushing through change.