What's next?
At any point, there are only one to three things that would move your life or career forward. In most cases, there's only one next thing.
But also, at any point, we are working on several other things - most of them distracting us from the ones that matter. They help maintain the status quo, not to change it. Or they might matter only when the priority changes get done.
It takes persistence and intention to move forward on the changes that matter. It also takes persistence to ignore everything else while we are working on them.
Fear can show up as distraction, and distraction delays forward motion.