Does this sound familiar? You start a project or new job etc. and begin by going all out. Then after a while, it peeters out and you quit?

There are things I won't start because I don't feel I can do them. Instead of trying and failing, I don't even start. After a while, your world gets smaller and smaller until , as you say, there are only the necessities left. Some people forge ahead and look at failures as learning experiences. It doesn't stop them from trying again. For others, the risk is too great.

The sad thing is, most of the things that are not started for fear of failure would actually work out. Lack of self esteem and self confidence stops some of us, and the more we do it, the stronger the behavior becomes.

Try picking something small that no one else knows about. If it doesn't work or you don't finish it, no one will know but you. That takes some of the pressure off.

sam2