When you want a different career, a higher level of business success, a big change in your life and work, you might feel a tense and adrenaline-charged choice between A) taking a risky flying leap or B) staying miserably stuck.

Option C is almost always a better choice. Take a step. There’s no chasm to dramatically leap between where you are and where you want to be. Just an uneven landscape to navigate through over time.

Your brain imagines the chasm and creates the false choice between stuckness and flying leaps because it’s wired to keep you from leaving the illusory safety of the status quo.

Launch by taking a step. It’s far less risky (not less scary) than status quo and the flying leap, and far more likely to get you there.