153: Working Through Worry: Believing In Your Best Case Scenarios

If you know me well and if you've been around here for very long, you might know that I tend to worry a little bit, maybe more than I should, and this is something that I've been working on for a really long time. I say I'm a worrier, but not to be confused with a warrior. More of like a worrier. Like I'm worrying too much about different things. I'm really great at worst case scenarioing. So I have a nugget for you today that I hope will help you if you do the same thing as well.

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I think that my ability to worst case scenario is not unique to me. I think many of us do it and I think that it's one of the biggest contributors that led to my experiencing some pretty serious anxiety back in 2020. If you've been around, you might know a little bit more of that story. So I've been working, my goodness, four years now, really heavily on some personal development, on some, you know, mind work, and just how to strengthen all of those mental neural pathways, if you will. And so something that has really helped me is always making sure that if I think about the worst case scenario that I also play out the best case scenario as well. And I do this in all sorts of scenarios. So times where I really am worried about something, I can get wrapped up in kind of the spiral of it and then I have to pause and fully play out the best case scenario as well. Really helps even things out. And for me it helps me then be able to properly weigh risk versus reward and decide what I want to do. But this is also really helpful when it comes to business decisions.

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Let's say you are afraid to share your work because someone might steal it. Let's say you're a new artist, you're afraid to share your work. You're afraid someone is going to steal it or copy you or whatever. Well, okay, that is worst case scenario. And so let's also play out the best case scenario. The best case scenario would be maybe that you do share your work and maybe your biggest dream collaborator, licensing partner, finds you and asks to license your work. Now I've heard that happening just as much as I've heard the other one happening. And so now that you've played out both scenarios, you get to choose risk versus reward. Is the risk of my work being copied worth the potential reward of it getting discovered? And so oftentimes I can't answer that for you, it's going to be different for everyone. Some people it won't be worth it. Some people it will be absolutely worth it. So this is just a shorty episode to let you know the next time that you find yourself playing out the worst case scenario, worrying and also just having kind of that fear filter, flip the script. Also play out the best case scenario, have an abundance based filter. What is the best thing that could happen from this? And then weigh out your decision, my friends. Create the beauty that you want to see come alive in the world. And remember, there's room for you. Sam.