Shonda Rhimes

So many things could change about your life.

I think the point is for you to figure out where the problems are in your life and how you can take the things that you've been living with but been dissatisfied by and change them.

I mean, that's really the goal.

I really did.

You know, it's interesting.

Yeah, it was, I owned all of Thursday night and things were going great.

I realized that my characters were living these extraordinary, amazing, imaginative, great lives.

And I was living in a very small corner of my own life and not willing to step out of it.

I was saying no to everything that anybody asked me to do.

I was very shy, very, I mean, I had confidence in my writing and that was probably about it.

But I was not, I did not have confidence in myself when I was not a character, you know, when I wasn't writing in the voice of a character.

And my life had become really, really small and very unhappy.

I mean, it's interesting.

I think we all have, you know, hopes and dreams of things we want to accomplish.

They might be about motherhood.

They might be about work.

They might be about relationships.

It could be about anything.

But the reality of it is, is most of us are blocked by this huge chasm of fear, right?

Being afraid to actually do the thing, being stopped by it simply because you don't even know how to begin, being too afraid to just make the leap because what if it doesn't work out?