How to be bold?

“Next to Resistance, rational thought is the artist or entrepreneur's worst enemy. Bad things happen when we employ rational thought, because rational thought comes from the ego. Instead, we want to work from the Self, that is, from instinct and intuition, from the unconscious.

A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. Its only you and I, with our big brains and our tiny hearts, who doubt and overthink and hesitate.” - Steven Pressfield, Do the Work

So this quote was emailed to me today, June 6th, for the Trust 30 writing challenge.  It's about being bold and doing the thing that I've been hesitating on.  I doubt myself.  The writing challenge asked what I want to accomplish but am afraid to try?  How do I rationalize it away?

Today I went to the MATC adult learning center for a "Dislocated Workers" program.  The career counselor urged us to get into a program that could help us get money for classes.  I have thought about going to MATC for a while now.  I still don't know what I'd like to study.  I found out today that there are waiting lists for most of their degree programs. I don't have the money.  I haven't been in school for a long time.  As I already mentioned, my placement test scores for math were bad.  Those are my doubts and obstacles to going back to school.

I'm pretty good at thinking about my obstacles and not deciding that I can do these things.  I hesitate & doubt myself.  Deep down I know that I'm more capable than I allow myself to be.  I think it's time that I start investigating things.  I'm going to take some steps.