Fear is a Good Thing

• Fear is an emotional response to an actual threat, and it’s a fundamental survival mechanism.  
• Immediate danger: fear tells you to get yourself to someplace safer.
• Once our ancestors saw a few friends and relatives devoured by lions, fearing lions became a smart move.
• Fear is also a true emotional response when we’re about to lose someone or something that’s important to us.
• Fear the loss of a loved one to illness, or our home due to unemployment.
•  Sensation people experience in the face of taking action to achieve their dreams; not true fear.
• It’s F.E.A.R.

 
What is F.E.A.R?
 

• F.E.A.R. is an acronym for False Evidence Appearing Real.
• There’s no true threat of immediate physical danger
• No threat of a loss of someone or something close to us.
• F.E.A.R. is an illusion.
• Something we fabricate in our own minds and pretend is real.
• It’s a Movie Drama we tell ourselves that keeps us from doing what we really want.
• False evidence appearing real.
• F.E.A.R is anxiety, an emotion that arises purely from our own thoughts, not external reality.
• Cognitive psychology research demonstrates that while we can’t always control how we feel, we do have the power to choose how we think and act.                                                                                                                  

 How to Conquer Fear?

• “Anxiety is nothing but repeatedly re-experiencing failure in advance. What a waste.” ~Seth Godin
• Are past failures real evidence for future failure?
• No, because unless you keep doing the exact same thing over and over and expecting different results (i.e., insanity).
• No real evidence that your next approach will fail.
• Past failures generate false evidence appearing real. 
• It’s likely you learned things from your past failures that instead provide evidence that your odds are now better than ever.
• Worst-case scenario, involves those who’ve never failed, because they’ve never tried.
• These people have zero real evidence of anything, and are living in the purest imaginary prison of the mind.
• Healthy and well-adjusted people take risks, without all this deep dread over specific outcomes.
• The journey is what you’ll relish, and it just might take you somewhere better than you initially hoped. 
• Each journey teaches you what you need to know to take the next one.
•  The formula for conquering F.E.A.R. is simple:
• BE-DO-HAVE
• BE the person you choose to BE
• Do the things/Actions that this person does
• HAVE all the success, opportunities and possibilities.