“I am attacking anything that I’m scared of.” Will Smith

Face your fear

This is not the other choice. It is the only choice.

Imagine that you are living in a closed house. You crave the sun but you are too afraid to go outside. You want to feel the touch of other human beings like you but you are afraid to face the outside world.

In your resolve to be safe and not face your fear, you sacrifice your ability to go outside and live your life. In other words, you are sacrificing everything.

You are shutting out air and light and beauty – just because you refuse to look out and venture into the world.

You can have an upper-hand on anything that you are afraid of by facing the fear and taking action.

The mountain is not going to come to you. You have to go to it.

The more you keep on facing your fear, the stronger you become at overcoming it.

This is how you realize any habit becomes stronger as you feed it.

The same is true for your fear.

Your fear stops controlling you the more you take actions.

You would like to go back to your room – and close the doors and windows and never go outside.

You feel safe in that environment. You have been in that environment for many years.

But you notice that as you try going outside, again and again, your fear of facing the outside is diminishing. Slowly. Definitely.

Now you think you want to venture outside more.

You begin to plan what you are going to do when you are outside.

You see, every fear that you fear diminishes when you face it and walk towards it.

We all fear

I am going to tell you something so simple and so obvious that you might discard it as unimportant.

Instead, it is the most important thing.

Ready?

Anybody who has ever accomplished anything has done so by facing the thing that he/she has feared.

It doesn’t matter the number of books you’ve read on the thing that you are afraid of.

It doesn’t matter how much you are planning to do something, anything about “that thing that you are afraid of”.

It is your action that is going to save you.

We all fear. We all struggle.

As such, the only thing that matters is facing our fear and walking towards it – not away from it.

Do what scares you. Only then will you find one less thing to be afraid of. Better to look back and say “I’m glad that’s over” than to look longingly off into the distance and say “I wish I could do that.”

Related links:

· Goodbye fear

· What Can You Learn From Failure?

To your inspirations,

Banchi