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Nov
Fear: The enemy of success
Frequent readers of motivational books would surely be familiar with the trumpet to action.
That the need to be actively taking action for success is not surprising: in fact, it is an important pre-requisite. All those lofty ambitions and careful plans are nothing but castles in the air if they born into the physical world. Yet we keep ourselves paralysed by the stifling cloud of fear and procrastination.
Personally, fear is a tough enemy to defeat. It never fails to seek out my vulnerabilities, and to exploit it like a crack in the hole. It encourages procrastination by casting doubts on my capabilities, rubbing it in liberally with its incessant nagging. It is annoying, and should have been in itself a compelling enough reason to incite me to cast this enemy aside. Yet I find myself pausing to entertain the spectre of negativity that it creates, effectively neutralising the positive encouragements that I harbour. Sometimes, I even get consumed by fear itself, preferring to hide myself under the covers of the bed, totally shut out from the world.
What I have failed to realise is that fear plays no actual part towards the achievement of my goals. Instead of focusing me upon the task at hand, I am detracted into a damaging exercise in mis-trust with myself, eventually achieving its aim (ironically) when I fail to achieve mine. So, from now on, I promise everybody to not ever give a thought to this distracting troll.
on November 13th, 2005 at 3:52 pm
Faith is written in the Bible as the substance of things hope for.
Fear is no different from faith. Because it is also a substance of things hope for.
The only differece is that one hopes for a better outcome while the others dwells in the realm of negativity. So therefore you should have faith in yourself to overcome and to excel.
However to overcome anything, you need to overcome the fear you habour within you.Because Faith is not without the element of fear but inspite of fear you succeed. My Pastor always say FAITH is the acronym for FORSAKING ALL I TRUST HIM (GOD). I am not selling you my God, cause it cheapens His grace, but what I am saying here is Faith is about forsaking everything to succeed. The biggest enemy is not fear but yourself but fear makes you think is fear. Therefore, to overcome fear your have to have FAITH to overcome yourself.
on November 19th, 2005 at 5:03 pm
Fear is a tricky one. I used to think I was brave, until the earthquake happened here and I turned into a total wimp. I am a physical coward. I know that now. I think true bravery is when you do stuff DESPITE being afraid, not because you are not afraid.
That’s why I am brave for getting a flu shot.
(Not that I’ve had it yet. We have to find a doctor who will give it to me!)