Hello, readers.

I want to talk to you about hesitation. And I’m not simply talking about procrastination, which I do believe is sometimes your fear showing up, because you don’t want to face a certain thing, or it seems like it’s going to be a harder task than it actually is. I want to talk about the hesitation that happens with big change. It’s such a big change. It’s an obvious change. It’s a visible change. It’s something that when you do it, people are going to talk. People are going to comment about it, good or bad, to your face and behind your back. The type of change that could change your life, but will surely change your perspective on yourself.

And it got me thinking. I think everyone has those moments in their life when you pause right before you do something that’s going to really shake things up. What I mean by shake things up is that your daily activities, your regularly scheduled things, the things you do every day, they look different now. And a lot of the time that leads us to inaction. That hesitation moment I spoke about earlier.

Hesitation is not always bad. There are a lot of reasons hesitation can be good. If the idea is not well thought out, you should hesitate. If the idea is big risk, low reward, you should hesitate. If something is going to cause harm to others or harm to yourself, you should hesitate. But what about the moment where you need to stop hesitating? What are some reasons we can give ourselves to stop hesitating and to start taking an action that may disrupt our regularly scheduled life?

Before I get to that answer, the answer that I feel is adequate, I want to paint a picture. Every day, people live their lives on autopilot. They get up, they brush their teeth, they go to work, they come home, they see their family. There is nothing wrong with this. It is a beautiful life for many people. Everyone wants to have balance. Everyone wants to have purpose. I don’t blame them. But when the comfort of your life starts getting in the way of you fully realizing the things you may want to do, that’s when comfort becomes the barrier. That’s when comfort is the problem. When we start watching our lives happen from behind a screen all the time, that’s when inaction because of our comfort becomes a barrier. I hope one day that comfort will turn into discomfort, and when that discomfort comes, it will hopefully bring us to a great change.

I’m going to give you three reasons why hesitation should be turned into action in your life.

One: you have a nagging feeling in the back of your mind that something needs to change. You find yourself daydreaming, and when you come back, you were thinking about things you could be doing differently. Different ideas, different actions, different activities you might like to try.

Two: do it for the story. Do it for the stories that one day you can tell, whether you failed or whether you succeeded. Do it for all the reasons that make you nervous.

Three: do it because being out of your comfort zone is where people grow. That is just the beginning of growth. That is just the beginning of understanding what you yourself are fully capable of when you leave the comfort of the circle you have made. And there is nothing wrong with being comfortable, but there is something wrong with being stuck your whole life, only to look back and wish you had done something else. Wish you would have tried that. Wish you would have worn that outfit. Because at the end of the day, who cares? We are all too busy judging ourselves. And maybe that is the point. You judge yourself so harshly that hesitation talks you out of all the things you might truly enjoy and experience, but never will, because hesitation never turned into action.

So I want us to try. I want us to truly live. No more waiting. No more watching from the sideline. We got this.

Love, Hallie  💜