MASTER YOUR FEARS
I’ve heard it said that we’re born with only a few fears
like the fear of falling and the fear of loud noises.
All other fears We learn along the way.
Like the fear of failure, the fear of rejection
– even a fear of success.
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.
Doubt is the first cousin of fear and precedes it.
We weren’t born with doubt.
Our habit of doubt has grown throughout our Life.
If we dwell on a doubt and give in to it,
it then grows into fear.
The Apostle James reminds us that doubt makes us Ineffective, “a sea that is tossed and driven by the wind;
and every decision you then make will be uncertain,
as you turn First this way, and then that.
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If most of our fears and all of our doubts are learned along the way, then we can “unlearn” them
by becoming masters of our thoughts.
I’ve heard Zig Ziglar quote Mark Twain when
he said, “True courage is not the absence of fear,
it’s the Mastery of fear.”
The people who live the life of their dreams
have just as many fears as those who live
miserable, Unfulfilled lives – they just learned
to master their fears instead of allowing
their fears to master them.
Norman Vincent Peale, writing in
“You Can If You Think You Can”,
provides us with a prescription for
mastering fear and Doubt.
“You can cancel out fear with faith.
For there is no force in this world
more powerful than faith.
Ambrose Redmoon said that,
“courage is not the absence of fear,
but rather the judgment that something else
is more Important than fear.”
Everyone is afraid at some time of another.
Those who succeed in conquering fear have
put their focus on what’s more Important
to them rather than on the fear.
If your young child darted into the street
in front of traffic, you’d easily overcome The fear of any physical danger that
retrieving the child would pose.
The child’s life is more important to you
than the fear.
So focus on what’s beyond the fear
what’s on the other side
– when you overcome the fear.
Brian Tracy has a great way to fight doubt.
He says, “Don’t’ wonder whether something is
possible Over and over if you Have to, but
ask how can you do it, not whether you can.”
And that’s worth thinking about.
~Vic Johnson~
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