Fear Denied Licensure 

At work today I’m feeling something I want to share.  And honestly, it’s as simple as this…. FEAR.LESS.NESS.

More than any other day, and I think what it is materializes from knowing what you’re doing is what you should be doing.

You are where you belong.  Opportunity is the only language you speak.

You spend so much time at work… why not be passionate?  Why not be obsessed?  Why fear ANYTHING?

My energy has re-translated itself.  Or maybe I’m the one seeing everything differently.

Fearlessness, I’m realizing, is NOT the absence of fear.  Nope, it’s the quiet agreement you make with yourself that fear no longer gets voting rights in your decisions. 

“Fear” still speaks, I just translate it how I need to.  It still taps the shoulder, still whispers rehearsed warnings and recycled doubts, but it lost its license to direct traffic. 

The realest liberation happening, no more waiting to feel “ready”. 

I’m simply trusting my own form of readiness, and that it’s something built while moving. Work is now less about proving yourself and more about expressing your most honest SELF. 

The energy, not obligatory, but dominantly creative.  The most me I’ve ever been.  Sitting in a break room names years ago the ZenDen.  Where people come to escape for a few minutes, brainstorm, rest, whatever needed to contribute to the day and I’m here trying, praising the day and how I feel.

And, studying.  What I am, how I feel, what brought me here.  This Fearlessness wasn’t what you saw in Mike Madigan a year ago.  It was doubt, low self-estimation, prominent pessimism.  But not now.

Now, celebrating.  Yes working, but grateful, and holding to every moment put in front of me.  I’ll share this with my future Trainees, and existing Reps, Leads, Managers…

Opportunity.  Sans fear.