If someone asked me one year ago where was I planning to be today, it would never be even a slight possibility of the answer come up like: “Well, I’ll be at the other side of the world, living in New Zealand, after leaving my company, my friends and family to try something new, just because I felt like it would be cool”.
I was so concerned about the future of my company, the market and my career, that I became ill and stressed. My worse fear at that time was that it might happen, some day, that I would have to leave my company and find a job somewhere else, or even worse, in another city (hah! Tell me about it!).
It took me one year to realize that the only thing I should fear was the fear itself. I wasn’t living anymore; I was just surviving, thinking that the future could bring me bad news, so I should be prepared to deal with them.
Who would imagine that I would decide to quit my company and go to New Zealand like this?
Well, wasn’t easy, you know. The last couple of days in Brazil and the first ones here were really frightening.
But now that I’m here, working, living, meeting people, facing new challenges, I can say for sure: Do not ever let yourself to be a prisoner of your own fears, because at some point at the end of your life you will look back and you will not be sorry about what you did, but regret mostly because of what you didn’t try.
That simple.