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 Embracing Fear
by Thom Rutledge
When fear is in charge, you can never fully relax, let your guard down, be
your true self. You can't open up because you are afraid of how people will
respond if they were to meet the real you.
When fear is in charge, you simply cannot take that chance. Fear will not
allow honesty, fear despises spontaneity, and fear refuses to believe in
you. Fear may mean well, but ruins everything by over-protecting you,
insisting that you stay hidden, promising that your time is coming ...
sometime later.
Fear is bold, but insists that you be timid. Take a chance and there will
be hell to pay: fear will call on its dear friend, shame, to meet you on
the other side of your risk taking.
Fear will trip you, tackle you, smother you, do whatever it takes to cause
you to hesitate, to stop you. In this way, fear is fearless. Fear will
remain in charge for as long as you let it. It will never volunteer to step
down, to relinquish its authority.
Your assignment is to live a life that is not ruled by fear. To do this,
you must be able to identify at any given time exactly what fear is telling
you - aka: threatening you with -- and to disobey its instructions. Every
morning when you awake, make a conscious decision to remain in charge of
your own life. Fear cannot occupy the space in which you stand. Let your
personal motto be NO FEAR. Say those powerful words as you put your feet on
the floor, as you look into the mirror, as you walk out of the door.
Ask your self each morning, and all through the day, what will NO FEAR mean
for me today? Ask yourself the question, and be sure to listen for the
answer.
Visit the Web site: http://www.webpowers.com/thomrutledge
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