If you are unwilling to feel fear and embrace the thoughts that go along with it, then you start to avoid situations that cause fear.

And when you do feel that fear, you feel like something is wrong, like it means that you’re going to fail.

Instead, the first step is to embrace your fear. Lean into it. Feel it. Feel all of it. Embrace the worst outcome with open arms.

Once you do that, the fear no longer has power to hurt you. It can actually help you at that point.