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Stop Mistaking Your Excuses for Common Sense

Stop Mistaking Your Excuses for Common Sense

Update: 2025-12-01
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In this episode of The MindShifter Audio Blog, Fatima Bey exposes how fear disguises itself as logic, responsibility, realism, and common sense and quietly sabotages growth, purpose, and momentum.

This episode breaks down the many “reasonable” excuses fear uses to keep people stuck, why waiting is often just fear in disguise, and how decisions, not feelings, are what ultimately change lives.


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https://www.fatimabey.com/stop-mistaking-fear-for-common-sense


Chapters

0:00 Introduction

0:14 Stop mistaking fear for common sense

1:03 How fear disguises itself

1:48 The many costumes fear wears

3:09 When playing it safe becomes self-sabotage

4:30 Choosing intuition over fear

5:55 What fear is really costing you

7:10 Fear is not your advisor

8:45 Courage is a decision, not a feeling

9:37 Name the excuse

11:04 Fear’s time is up


MindShift Moments

• Fear rarely announces itself

• Excuses often sound like wisdom

• Waiting is not always responsible

• Decisions create momentum

• Courage acts before confidence


Quotes

“Fear dresses up as common sense.”

“Waiting is just another word for dying slowly.”

“Courage is a decision, not a feeling.”


Read the full transcript on Listen Notes.


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