Michelle 'Mace' Curran

Like what is our plan B?

What's our contingencies?

And when you get it out of your brain and you get it out into the world and then you plan for that worst case,

Now you're a lot more confident and now the scale will often tip towards, okay, it's worth going after this opportunity because I think resilience and persistence and perseverance isn't this idea that everything's going to always go in your favor, right?

It's the idea that you're going to take action and when stuff does go wrong, doesn't go as planned, which inevitably will happen at some point, that's okay because I can weather that storm.

Yeah, I like to focus on what I call SBCs because we love acronyms in the military.

Small, bold choices.

So I think a lot of times we have this big goal, this dream, and it's that thing that we can't let go, right?

We haven't done it yet.

We're scared.

We might fail.

Keeps popping up.

So rather than there being two choices of going all in on this thing, making this massive leap, and that feels terrifying,

Or choice B, doing nothing and guaranteeing that the thing's not going to happen.

There's an option in between.

And that is SBCs, where you pick the smallest action step you can take right now, today, that would serve that goal, that would move you towards it.

And it should feel a little bit bold, but it shouldn't be so terrifying that if it doesn't go as planned, it scares you back to stagnation.

So if you are thinking about making a career leap, for example, you're like, I'm going to leave my job and move to this new industry.

Okay, rather than just quitting today, how about you send five LinkedIn messages to people in the industry that you want to be part of?

Reach out and be like, well, can I get on a call with you?