What is it I want out of my professional life? Over and over again, it comes back to wanting a measure of control over my work environment, and ownership of my work. Over and over again, the risk involved scares me, and the inability to form a coherent plan of attack prevent me from moving forward.

I think that fundamentally, there’s a part of me that’s scared – I mean, you have a dream, and figure that you’ll be good at what you do, but the moment it becomes reality, the potential for failure becomes real as well. Still – how long do you keep putting something off for what, fear of failure? At some point, failure then becomes the default.

What then?