Face Your Fear

“Worry gives a small thing a big shadow.”Swedish proverb


How many times have us let fear breed in our mind and hence leading to inaction?
Fear can be helpful for survival when it warn us of the dangers that we are facing and cause us to be more mentally prepared to deal with the problem. It definitely serve us well until it got to a point that it is inhibiting our ability to take actions.

How do we overcome fear?
First of all, we need to determine what is the cause of fear.

Fear is basically what you are thinking and portraying it to your brain. Basically it is all about thoughts. How you think about something will make it either scary or not.

Breaking your personal comfort zone is one of the trigger to fear. When you want to quit your current job, you will feel fear. When you are going to give a first speech in your 30 years of life, you will feel fear. When we break out of our comfort zone, where we are entering is an area of unknown and most people hate unknown areas.

The funny thing about fear is sometime things that we worry and fear about doesn’t come true. It is just the accumulating of negative thoughts in our mind that cause it to snowball into a huge issue.

Can fear be overcome? Yes! Definitely..
By:

• Tackling Fear

Let us decipher the word, FEAR

F – False


E – Evidence


A – Appearing


R – Real

Whenever there are time when you feel fearful, remember this and self talk to yourself and decipher the word FEAR.

• Be Positive

When negative images start to fill your head. Stop! Control your thoughts and think of positive images.

• Learning from Fear
  

“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”   Eleanor Roosevelt

• Being Curious

Being curious is the opposite of living in fear. Curiosity empowers you with excitement of venturing into the unknown areas for greater rewards. It spur actions and actions are the seeds to success.