I wrote a full essay on this as well with tips if you want to run this experiment yourself & everything that happened (personally, professionally, financially) since I started 💓💓 #expansion #growth #SelfImprovement #ambition

One year ago I was faced with a decision. I knew that I wanted to start putting myself out there and putting more of my creative work out there because that was the only way to make some of my big ambitious dreams come to life. But I was so scared of being perceived and being seen and you know that whole thing that comes with putting yourself out there. And I remember after having countless conversations with my friends about it coming to a really helpful realization. I basically had a very clear choice between choosing expansion or choosing shrinking and staying small. I could choose to stay exactly where I was and I knew exactly what life would be like if I did that. It would look exactly as it did right at that moment and it would be comfortable. Or I could choose the path of expansion with all the discomfort that came with that, all of the risk and the fear, but also all of the opportunity that I couldn't yet even imagine. All of the potential growth that would come with that. And as someone that cares so much about sort of growing into the best and fullest life that I can have, I realized that choosing this path of shrinking and staying small was just against the values that were most important to me. So I made a vow to myself that for a whole year, every time I was faced with such a decision, I would choose the path of most expansion and see where that got me. And I would sort of run that as an experiment in my life. And it was by far the best decision I ever made. I took my social media off private for the first time. I started posting and then soon after so many things happened that I really, really couldn't have predicted would happen that quickly. So many dreams started coming to life and things started falling into place just because I took the risk of putting myself out there instead of staying small and comfortable. So if you're someone with similar values, similar dreams, running this experiment in your own life, deciding that you're going to get into your year of expansion. And every single time that you're faced with a decision, choose the path of most expansion. Say yes to that, no matter how uncomfortable it is. I honestly could not recommend that more. And I can make another video talking about everything that happened since I started doing this. But making this commitment to yourself means that you're pre-deciding how you're going to act in every such situation so that you take the decision fatigue and the spiraling and the anxiety away from the decision-making moment. And you already know that you've made a decision about how you want to act. So you already know when you're faced with such a choice that you've already committed to yourself, that you're choosing expansion. And there's almost no room for you to spiral and overthink yourself out of it in the moment.