What role does fear play in your life?

If you allow fear to play a starring role in your life, you’ll never express your full potential. You’ll continuously second guess your decisions and live as though you’re trapped within a tiny invisible cell. And after years of self-incarceration, you’ll no longer be able to differentiate between your real or perceived limitations.

One of the worst things about fear is that it doesn’t discriminate. It lurks in the background of almost everyone’s mind, just waiting for an opportunity to take center stage.

No matter how accomplished or successful you are, unless you intentionally focus your mind on things you want to achieve, fear will continue to raise its head and create just enough self-doubt in you so that you don’t pursue the things you want.

Before I go on let me clarify that there is a difference between fear and concern. Concern is a feeling which affects one’s welfare or happiness, and there’s nothing wrong with being concerned. But the danger lies in letting your concerns slip into paralyzing fear.

Somewhere in most people’s lives, they have an experience or two that implants fear in their mind and convinces them that they can only do so much and no more. It’s due to these experiences that they begin to adjust their expectations of themselves and allow fear to guide them for the rest of their lives.

Don’t be one of those people that let fear guide their entire life. Yes, have concern for your welfare, but don’t allow fear to keep you in a cell of your own making and prevent you from living up to your full potential.

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