Fears Are Self-fulfilling Prophecies

But sometimes you realize these fears are self fulfilling prophecies. And all I had to do to have a different story, to have a different end result, was prepare. If my belief is that I'm going to be unprepared when I get on stage, all I have to do is make sure I have space in my calendar to do the thing. I hire the coach who's going to hold me accountable and make sure that it happens and then it was done. So we did all this work, did all the prep. I got on stage, did my 20 minute presentation. I got to actually see humans, which for me was like the coolest thing ever. Got to see people smiling and taking pictures of my slides and like nodding when I said things and laughing when made an awkward joke. And it was so fun. And when I got off the stage, I don't know what happened, you guys, but I walked off that stage and I was an entirely different human being when I walked off that stage versus who I was when I walked on the stage.