I want you to stop for a moment and ask yourself: What is fear?

Here is a great quote:

What is fear? It is absolutely nothing. It is a mental illusion. There is no reality behind it. It is to the sane adult what the ghost is to the child. There is not one single redeeming feature about fear or any of it’s numerous progeny. It is always, everywhere, an absolute curse. Although there is no reality in fear, no truth behind it, yet everywhere we see people who are slaves to this monster of the imagination. -OSM.

Fear is everywhere among us. Throughout life we are afraid of possible disappointments and mistakes we might make. We are afraid of what our enemies could do, afraid of potential poverty, afraid of what others will think, afraid of our parents, teachers and looking stupid to our peers. We are afraid of rules and regulations. We are afraid of failure. Ever since our childhood, we have grown up in a world of fear. Watch out for this, don’t touch that, you could get cut or burned. If we don’t do this, then something terrible is going to happen. Remember the panic and fear around Y2K? In many cases we are in a constant state of anxiety, paralyzed by fear.

Really stop and ask yourself: what is fear really? It is nothing more than the mere creations of our own imagination.

Fear is one of the leading causes for failure. Fear crushes our hopes, dreams and kills our courage. Fear grabs creativity by the throat and strangles it. Fear handicaps our individuality and ambitions. Many people out there are so fearful of failure or ridicule that they may fail that they never begin. How many of us are so handicapped by our own fear of failure that we rob ourselves of our future? I am good friends with a girl who is so scared her parents would disapprove of her that she would not change her major back in college. She is stuck in a career choice now that she despises, but is still too scared of them to switch. She is a grown woman! What kind of a life is that? She will go on throughout life miserable all because of fear.

If only we could remove our fear of failure from our society, imagine the innovation that could be within our grasp. Imagine the growth! Our world would jump forward leaps and bounds! No longer could dreams be held hostage by fear inside our imaginations, but rather set free for our heart’s ambition. We must conquer our fears if we want to move forward towards our goals.

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.– Shakespeare.

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