What If It All Works Out?
About this episode
In this episode, Shawn Feeney explores the importance of considering positive outcomes instead of solely focusing on worst-case scenarios when facing new decisions.
Think about the last time you stood on the edge of something new. A decision you were weighing. A leap you were considering. A conversation you kept rehearsing. Notice what your mind was doing in that moment. Odds are it was running worst-case scenarios in exquisite detail, and calling that being realistic. This short solo episode sits with a quiet flip. We rehearse failure constantly and hand fear the microphone, while possibility stays on mute. What would change if, just once, you gave the best-case scenario the same airtime as the worst? Not as toxic positivity, but as simple fairness. Fear asks what if you fail. Possibility asks what if you fly. They are both just questions, and most of us have been answering the wrong one. In this episode, I explore: Why rehearsing the worst case feels responsible, when it is often just fear dressed up as logic The uncomfortable reason we avoid imagining things working out, that it puts the choice back on us How the worst-case scenario quietly becomes permission to stay exactly where you are What shifted for me when I finally gave "what if it works" the same weight as the fear of leaving corporate A simple practice for the next…
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