You keep asking “what if it goes wrong?” Give the other question equal airtime: “what if it goes right?”

Your brain simulates disaster in high definition and almost never volunteers the other simulation. Both are imagined, but only one gets airtime, and that imbalance quietly tilts every decision toward staying still. Running the good version is not optimism, it is finishing a calculation you already started.

Take something you are weighing and give both stories equal time. Write the bad one, then write the version where it works, in the same detail, all the way out to what is different in six months. Then notice which one you had been calling realistic.