Acknowledge your fear, but then make a bargain with yourself to start the next step anyway -- whether it is taking the next step to develop your skills, increasing your responsibility, or asking for a raise or promotion.
"Bringing a child into this world also increases your responsibility to save the best things on the planet," she said, saying that had inspired a recent song, "A Prayer for the Planet".
Those skills are the same skills that your employer will value when it comes to increasing your level of responsibility, trusting you with key clients and promoting you into leadership positions.
It is easy to get manoeuvred into taking on new responsibilities and increasing your role at work.
How can you increase your own responsibility?
If your role has substantively changed (your responsibilities have increased, your clients are more high-profile) you may want to target a raise since your ongoing contribution will be greater.
Our actions, however positive or negative, impact on our siblings, parents, spouse, lover, etc. Taking others into consideration is a simple and very effective way to increase your level of maturity and responsibility.
This will increase your attractiveness to potential employers, which result in a higher-level job with more money, increased responsibilities and stature within the new company.
Ever since the industrial age, career tracks have been built on the assumption that you can work around the clock in your 20s, shoulder increasing responsibility in your 30s and 40s and begin to ratchet down and move over for the next generation in your 50s and 60s.
An increase in corporate size implies that your responsibilities increase".
Increasing responsibility validates your hard work, track record and high ceiling.
