Look at the reasons for fear of what makes your life bigger, and the implications/results of keeping it small: all kinds of self-limitation like a conspiracy with yourself against yourself, or a larger you…
Here are some reasons for fear of things that might improve or make your life better:
It’s uncomfortable.
It takes energy.
You might make a mistake.
You might fail altogether.
People will see you try things at which you don’t (visibly) succeed and then they might not send you Christmas presents, or something.
Etc…
Some benefits of keeping your life as it is today:
You conserve precious energy.
You look marvelous.
People who might feel threatened by your success will still commiserate with you.
You know where everything is.
Etc.
Here’s an idea: why not instead conspire with a better version of you, align yourself with the version of yourself that you’d like to become? It can be a first step in getting you on a road that would lead you to a hundred things you’d like to do.
Your first steps involved falling. Maybe there were tears on your first day of school. When did you stop doing things that involved some moments of failure? Because when you stopped doing that, it was the day that you took an exit to a slow, boring back road.
Everybody knows the line by Bob Dylan: “He who’s not busy being born, is busy dying.” Hey I’ll bet he never worried about presents during the holidays…
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