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Fear

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. You were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within you. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other peoplele permission to do the same. As we're liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. (Nelson Mandela)

Because it's so common, fear has many other names: apprehension, misgiving, trepidation, dread, horror, phobia, terror, alarm, consternation, foreboding, qualm, suspicion, fret, alarm, uneasiness, distress, panic, etc., etc. (Peter McWilliams, Do It!)

Thinking will not overcome fear, but action will. (W. Clement Stone)

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't. (Sir Nathan Meyer Rothschild)

Nothing is so much to be feared as fear. (Henry David Thoreau, 1841)

Fear Truths...

1. The fear will never go away as long as I continue to grow.

2. The only way to get rid of the fear of doing something is to go out & do it.

3. The only way to feel better about myself, is to go out & do it.

4. Not only am I going to experience fear whenever I' m on unfamiliar territory, but so is everyone else.

(Suzanne Jeffries)

Act as if you are poised, confident, and beautiful and you will be. (William James)

The two greatest fear busters are knowledge & action. Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them. (Epictetus)

A U of M study showed that 60% of our fears are unwarranted, and 20% have already become past events and are completely out of our control. Another 10% are so petty that they don't make any difference. Of the remaining 10% of our fears, only 4 to 5% are real & justifiable. And we can't do anything about half of them! That means only about 2% of our fears are really worth thinking about. these can be solved by simply stop stewing & start doing!

Courage, contrary to popular belief, is not the absence of fear. Courage is the wisdom to act in spite of fear. In time, courage becomes the ability to use all the elements of the comfort zone as additional energy to move toward our goal. When we add en to courage, we have encourage. En is a prefix meaning "to be at one with." (Peter McWilliams Do It!)

When thinking won't cure fear, action will. (W. Clement Stone)

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. (David Lloyd George)

Fear...

• False

• Expectations

• Appearing

• Real

(Peter McWilliams, Do It!)

You gain strength, courage & confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." You must do the thing you think you cannot do. (Eleanor Roosevelt)

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