Fear can accompany any significant change. The unknown is just that: unknown. We can be excited about the unknown or we can be apprehensive.

In weighing potential futures, if the needle shifts too far toward anticipating negative outcomes rather than positive, we begin to layer ourselves with little bits of fear. Understandably.

The next chapter is always new; it’s not one we’ve read.

But the key isn’t in working to become better predictors of the future. Rather, it’s in cultivating trust in ourselves that we can handle whatever comes next.