What’s stopping you from living your biggest dreams, and achieving the seemingly impossible? For many, it’s Fear – that debilitating feeling, that annoying voice in your head that tells you: “It’s too risky.” “You might fail, then what?” “You’re not capable.” How do others become fearless and live their best lives?
“We all experience fear; it is a natural reaction that races through our bodies pulling us back, telling us “no” or “get away” from a real or perceived threat,” says Tarra Judson-Stariell, a San Diego therapist and author of Sanity: Lost & Found, A True Story of Brainwashing and Recovery. “Our brains are designed to react this way, whether the threat is real or a memory of an earlier painful event.”
The next time that voice creeps into your mind, confront it! That’s what the successful people have had to do. Read what some have to say about overcoming fear to help you push past self-doubt and realize your own success!
God make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear. — Ruby Dee, actress
If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive. — Audre Lourde, American writer, feminist
Whatever you fear the most has no power – it is your fear that has the power. The thing itself cannot touch you. But if you allow your fear to seep into your mind and overtake your thoughts, it will rob you of your life. — Oprah Winfrey
When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us. — bell hooks, author, feminist
I have come to understand and listen to the fear. — Tracee Ellis Ross, actress
There’s always something to suggest that you’ll never be who you wanted to be. our choice is to take it or keep on moving. — Phylicia Rashad, actress
Nothing worth having will ever become reality without some amount of fear that can easily be transformed into excitement as you move towards your goal. — Tarra Judson-Stariell, therapist and author
Strategies to take with you:
- Process fear to understand it. Talk to a trusted friend or family member about the source of your self-doubt. What is it based in? Get to the root of it.
- Re-define the word fear. From now on, it stands for: Face Everything and Rise!
- Stop caring what others think. 99 percent of the world doesn’t care, honestly. They’re busy overcoming their own fears. Know that more people are rooting for your success!
- Making friends with risk and failure. Realize that every successful person you admire experienced failure first. If you don’t try, you will die never knowing.
- Take action. No need to go big and bold. Take a small action step toward your goal – whatever that is. Cross it off. Then take another small step. Before you know it, you’re there!
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