Alexandra Niel walks through a method to reduce anxiety: list your worst-case scenarios, rank them by likelihood, group them into themes like finance or rejection, then tackle the top ones. Facing what scares you most actually brings clarity.
The second idea is, or the second step is to rank them. What is the absolute worst-case scenario from what you've listed? Write it down. What's the next one? And the next one? And the next one? Until you've made your way all the way through the list. One of the things that you might notice as you're doing that is that there are themes. You can actually cluster some things in buckets. You might have a finance bucket, a relationship bucket, a rejection bucket. You're going to be able to start to see what those patterns are, start putting them in buckets, and that's going to give you even more clarity. And once you know these are the worst-case scenarios, or these are all the different scenarios, take the first one and think about what can I do to mitigate that?
