By Leo Babauta

When people are considering a scary decision that requires them to step into the unknown, one of the biggest obstacles is our past experiences.

If you’ve failed or been hurt in the past, those experiences tend to hold a lot of weight — and we let those failures dictate what we’re going to do in the future.

I’m here to invite you to stay open to new possibility, rather than let the past failures dictate what you’re going to do.

Let’s take my Fearless Mastery coaching cohorts as an example — maybe you’re considering joining, in order to free yourself of old patterns, to unlock new possibility, and to start to move something meaningful forward for yourself.

But maybe you’ve joined things in the past, and you didn’t stick to them as much as you were hoping you would. Maybe you paid good money but didn’t do the work to get the value out of the program you were hoping for.

That would be a painful memory … and as you consider whether or not to join Fearless Mastery, maybe that memory holds a lot of weight. You think, “Hmmm, maybe I better not waste my money again, I’ll probably just let myself down again.”

And so your past becomes a weight, holding you back from new possibility.

Consider whether you’ve been doing that lately — holding yourself back because of past failure.

Past experiences can be valuable, in that we can learn from them. We can try to see where we went wrong — what was going on under the surface — and use that information to grow.

But instead, they often become weights, holding us back.

I’m here to invite you to let go of the past failures and painful experiences, and open yourself to new possibility. Let yourself create something new.

And if you’ve been considering joining Fearless Mastery … what would it be like to let go of your old fears and past experiences stopping you, and open to what could be?