Are you fearless?
Most of us are not. And that’s not all bad: sometimes fear can keep us from doing stupid things.
But fear can hold us back from accomplishing things we want to accomplish, too. It can do this without us even being that aware of it.
For example, say you’ve been wanting to lose weight for a couple of years, and that it’s really gotten out of control. You tell yourself you should see a doctor about it, but it never gets put on your task list. Or, if you put it there, it just keeps getting put off. When you start analyzing this, you realize you’ve been putting off seeing the doctor because you have a subconscious fear that she will tell you that you have diabetes, and you don’t really want to know that.
I doubt that most of us can make all of our fears go away. But, we can conquer many of them just by asking what do I have to do to stop being afraid of this? Once you see how simple some of the actions are, you can be motivated to accomplish them, putting the fears into your past.
To start getting a handle on your fears, I suggest you make a list of them. If you have trouble identifying them, you might ask yourself “what do I keep putting off, and what fear makes me put it off?”
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This is a great post. I see many people live unfulfilling lives because they fear being rejected or failing or just getting hurt. Most of us don’t realize that failure to act causes more pain in the long-run when we realize the many missed opportunities. We can never get rid of fear, as its human nature, but we must accept it as part of our instinct.
Well-said Robyn. So many of our fears are irrational ones, and ones we don’t even realize we have, but as you said, they lead to unfulfilled lives and missed opportunities and much more.
Hello Bruce, when I read your last post ‘A Fork in the Road’ the only instant fear coming to my mind is you could indeed discontinue your blog. Contrary to your opinion I feel your blog was more standing out from all the noise and comes mature and experienced. That’s why I kept reading all the time while deleting other subscriptions. Don’t give up.
Hi Bruce,
I just want to thank you sincerely for all the efforts you have done in writing this blog. It is one of the few blogs I actually set aside time to follow and I find the information on it really useful and applicable to my life. I hope you will continue the good work you have done here.
I have a bunch of tech/productivity/life-management type blogs bookmarked, but yours has always been on my short list of “must read” blogs that I check every few days. I appreciate the value you have added to my life. I can fully understand the need to step back and take real breaks… but I hope you’ll be back!
Thank you, Anthony.