If you can't change things now...Why would things be different next year?

If you can't change things now, why would it be different next year? You want to try things that could open up opportunities, make you money, take you to new places. But you're scared of risk. You get overwhelmed. You overthink, you talk yourself down, then you back away. This is where I was. Year after year, I had the same list. I wanted to try things, but I was scared. Afraid of failure, the uncertainty, judgment. So I put it off. Till next month, next year, when I be ready. The truth was, when the time came round, I didn't feel any more ready. That same list just kept reappearing. Except each year it was getting harder, not easier. I was more scared. And I had lost yet another year. It became clear I would never feel certain, confident, ready. So I carefully built an action plan around who I was. Gulped and pushed with everything I had. And that's when my life changed forever.