This is the question currently being posed by the blog If U Weren’t Afraid. Hosted by Lean In, the campaign run by the chief operating officer of Facebook Sheryl Sandburg, the site features pictures of women holding up Post-It’s, whiteboards or notebooks with their answers. “Start my own company” “Explore the world alone” or even “Be silly more often”. There’s no doubt that there’s a lot of things we would all do if the ability to remove failure or fear was an option, but this is even more so as a woman. Studies show women are less ambitious than men, avoid leadership roles and are afraid to speak up.

The project aims to challenge women, to acknowledge that we all have fears and to share them with one another, in a bid to conquer them. “We hope the women on this blog will inspire you to ask yourself, ‘What would I do if I weren’t afraid?’ And then to go and do it.” So ask yourself what you would do today, and who knows, maybe you’ll start doing it tomorrow.

Text by Beccy Hill

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