Fear is one of the biggest reasons people don't move forward with their passions and make their dreams reality. Everyone can overcome fears and we all need to do it! We need to knock down the strongholds of human reasoning and destroy the false arguments that keep talking us out of creating what we want. We need to expand our minds and hearts with the art of curiosity and imagination and become co-creators with God. He tells us that all things are possible, so we need to get out of our mediocre thinking.
Many people would rather make excuses or blame others than change. They can claim to be shy or a victim of a bad childhood, but when all is said and done people who have faced the most difficult of circumstances have achieved more success in their one lifetime than perhaps the collective lifetimes of hundreds of average thinking people who have spent their lives believing in their fears.
Everyone has fears. They can catapult us to greatness or they can let us fall into an abyss of darkness that leaves us to believe we're stuck. This is where many people are today. They can't comprehend that they have choices.
Having fears is natural and we can actually use them to achieve what we want. The process is like learning to ride a bicycle. There are many fears and failures along the way but as we pick ourselves up and keep going we eventually learn to stay on the bike and become proficient at riding.
By identifying with this common childhood achievement, you can see how important it is to regard overcoming failure as a learning experience that will also bring success as long as you don't quit practicing to overcome fear.
This is how we can turn negative circumstances into positive situations. Take the fear of flying for instance. I read of a man who had a great desire to get his private pilots license but he was afraid to fly. Instead of letting go of his dreams, he signed up for lessons anyway. This didn't change his fear of flying but what he told himself everyday did.
At night before he fell asleep he pictured himself maneuvering acrobatics in the air to an audience below. He intentionally avoided any thoughts of fear or nausea that tried to creep into his mind. Then each morning before his lessons he would envision himself in the sky, feeling exhilarated instead of dizzy. He created a pilots license that resembled the real thing with his name on it and put it in his wallet. Every now and then he would take it out and look at it while he envisioned himself flying solo.
Eventually he overcame his fear and became a successful pilot, teaching others to fly who had the same fear he had. What they learned affected every part of their lives because he made them believe that no matter what they wanted to do, they had the choice to succeed over whatever obstacles they faced.
CALLING FOR TIME
Here goes the impatience of now
Going here and there for joy
None understands this somehow
Time and chance awaits for now
Action speaks louder than plans
As success is unrelenting in life
The understanding of a true man
Many are searching to be factual
The truth of life bothers all
As we were born naked but different
And life brings its own call
While man seek true purpose
Calling for time to speak
Our individuality says it all
Though we lay life’s tricks
Our time comes to burn tall
Salau O John©
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