Dream makers vs. Dreams breakers: Fear

Today’s topic is really a tough one, for we have all experienced it in our life and chances are its part of your daily life. Dream maker/Dreams breaker # 3 is FEAR.

As humans we were born without doubts and without fears and as we become older, we start experiencing all kind of fears; fear of failure, fear of rejection, specially a fear of success. Vic Johnson said “I believe our greatest enemy in life is fear, because fear keeps us from doing many of those things we would like to do that would make our life more complete and more enjoyable.” And I completely agree with him.

What is fear? Here are two of my favorite definitions:
F.E.A.R is “False Evidence Appearing Real.”
F.E.A.R. is “Fantasized Experiences Appearing Real.”

So what is the difference between people who achieve their goals and those who do not? They have just learned to master their fears instead of allowing their fears to master them.

How do they do it? They do it with courage and faith.
Ambrose Redmoon said: "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear."
In other words when you realize what is at stake and how great the reward might be, you will gather the courage to make your goals happen in spite of your fear.

"You can cancel out fear with faith. For there is no force in this world more powerful than faith." Wrote Norman Vincent Peale. I am not only talking about faith in God (which in my opinion is crucial for our success) but also faith in yourselves and your abilities.

Let me leave you with one of the most beautiful and profound piece I have ever read:
“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, and 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. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” Speech by Nelson Mandela originally written by Marianne Williamson

To a week without FEAR,
Jephtée E.