Change is hard.

It's often easier to make up reasons, excuses, anything, to avoid taking that step so we can just crawl back into the comforting warmth of the familiar. Even if we find it wanting.

But if we don't take that step, we'll always be left wondering what it would have been like. Would things have become better or worse? Regardless, at least it would have been progress. Keeping the status quo just leaves things stagnant, which is the worst result you can get.