 I've always had a passion for creativity and sharing knowledge. Over the many years since this discovery, this passion fine-tuned itself into becoming one of a hunger for storytelling. So what was I going to do with this development? What was going to be the medium to share my creative stories? I thought of YouTube, but in the wonderful videos I was exposed to on the platform. And that was that. I decided right then and there that content creation on YouTube was going to be my thing. But the funny thing was that the excitement quickly transformed into a huge weight on my shoulders. What did I know about digital content creation in terms of script writing, filming, video editing, sound editing, or even licensing? There was so much involved in producing a single bit of content and I knew none of it. Every element of my decision seemed ominous and overwhelming. There I was. A lot I didn't know. Too many variables, so much uncertainty. The unknown brings out our fears. And then our imagination races off into mindless doomsday scenarios, nightmare situations of loss of comfort, security, and confidence concretely overtake our pragmatic selves. Once having infiltrated our lives, pain, worry, and stress then cripple our ability to do what we want to do and be the way we want to be. Yet what is unclear to many is that everything in life goes through the realms of the unknown. Being of value ever takes place without the sleep of faith towards the unknown. Just because everyone around us is making the same call, we overlook the major unknowns when taking substantial decisions like relationships, getting married, having kids, or buying a home. And we automatically downplay the associated risks. But when it comes to certain situations that appear much smaller within the grander scale of things, like following our passions, we withdraw, cocoon into our worries, and are held captive by our fear of what may come our way. So how to unlock our shackles and be free of the fears of the unknown? These next five key actions will help you alleviate your concerns and grant you control over your situation with newfound logic and positivity. Embracing doesn't mean that you'll have to like it. It just means that you don't resist or push it away when it triggers your thoughts of what if. Once you accept the uncertainty, you can see it for a multitude of things that are positive. You can see it as a vital element in your life, invigorating you with excitement and potential. We must live for the unknown. Speak your fears out loud to yourself, elaborate in detail about your worries of the unknown, and then ask yourself, what's the worst thing that can happen? By shifting them out of your internal domain and exposing them to an external ear, even if yours, fears spoken aloud will quickly reveal themselves as petty and harmless. The unknown is linked to change, and if you think, well that doesn't help much because as much as I fear the unknown, I fear change, then here's a mindset shift that hits two birds with one stone. You've changed into who you are, always, as you've done in the past, as you will do in your future. Trust me, you've become pretty good at it. Once you accept venturing into the unknown and before you embark on any journey towards it, acknowledge that you must keep on taking action, never stagnate. Chasing the unknown will lead to the known. Upon that clarity, a new threshold of unknowns will appear. Your mission is to constantly make the unknown known. The unknown is like a coin. On one side, there's a path to a lower existence, while on the other, a higher outcome awaits. Hence the unknown should overwhelmingly be about self-progression and opportunity. Ready to lessen the pain in your life and to achieve a prosperity aspired by you. Well here I am, on screen, speaking to you and sharing my stories about things that have grabbed my curiosity. Is it easy? Absolutely not. Nothing is as frightening as taking something private that you created and is personal to you. I think you're totally responsible for, and laying it out, fully revealed into the public domain, for people to assess, comment, and to judge. The clarity about the unknown I have, though, is not one linked to my potential success or failure, but the fact that I went from a position of not knowing, to one where facts speak to me. I did, I didn't hide, and I'll continue running in chase of the unknown, again and again, perpetually. These unknowns are now my inspiration. Everything in life has an element of the unknown, some more extreme than others. We can either allow it to drown us, or we can learn how to effortlessly ride its current towards a better existence.