You tell yourself you’ll handle it later.
That you’ll come back to this.
That you’ll be fine.
But “later” usually looks like this:
• You hesitate when it’s time to speak up
• You overthink a simple decision
• You shrink right before the moment matters
• You perform confidence instead of feeling it
Not because you’re weak.
Because the voice gets louder when change is near.
And the longer you wait, the more familiar that voice becomes.