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Accepting Fear For What It Is

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Accepting Fear For What It Is
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Just like that, the new year is already flying by. For me, the new year is followed by a lot of fear. It's somewhat of a "What will happen next?" type of fear. The fear is followed by the realization that I have very limited control on the events that will help shape my life. For a control freak that can be a difficult thing to deal with.

Since we were kids we've been running away from fear. It's a natural reaction. We want to feel safe and secure where we're at, but then again, nothing about life is suppose to make you feel safe and secure at all times. I mean, are your goals really goals if they don't scare you a little bit? So why not embrace the fear? Why don't we stop hiding from it? Why don't we stop trying to run away from it and simply look in the face and accept it?

At the end of the day there's nothing that we can do to make our fear disappear nor should we. So face it. Look it in the eye and allow it to be with you. Once the fear is accepted, what else can it do? If we walk through life saying "Yes, I'm afraid," but I'm going to reach my goals anyway, then we'll be a lot better off than denying that we're afraid and attempting to not let the fear show.

Maybe we should have been accepting our fear this entire time. The only way we can stop letting fear control us is to accept the fact that it's going to be in our life. By saying "Yes, I'm afraid but I'm going to do it anyway," helps take away that extra nervousness.

Life isn't an adventure without fear, but than again, life isn't an adventure with too much fear. The trick is learning how to find a happy medium.

Now this is a lot easier said than done. In fact I wouldn't be writing this article right now if I wasn't going through some fear of my own. But what I've come to realize in writing this is that fear is natural and good. Fear tells us to run is dangerous situations and fear tells us when we're beginning something new in our life. So as long as fear is going to be around for our journey, why don't we accept it; look it in the face and say "You're here, but you're not going to stop me."

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