What's there to be afraid of?
My friend, Dani, encouraged me to keep blogging. In an effort to avoid cynicism, here it goes. As I listen to people more and more, I realize how much fear controls our thoughts, mind, and actions. Fear is a powerful emotion that causes people to do strange things. To be clear, I am not speaking of physical fears (e.g. car crash, gun shots); I am talking specifically about the mental fear that we control ourselves (e.g. the fear of letting people know who we are, the fear that we are not good enough, the fear that we don't have the ability to do something). All of these fears are what I consider mental fears and are impacting us daily. " Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins." - Charles Stanley What does that mean? It means ...