Whatever excites you, go do it. Whatever scares you, go do it.
Quote from Derek Sivers
2 Jun
2010
Seven ways to rethink fear
"Fear means I'm in danger. Something's wrong. I must escape and seek safety."
Fear is pure energy. It's a signal. It might not mean stop, it could mean go!
"If I stop what I'm doing, I'll be lost. I'll never start again."
Sometimes we have to stop in order to find our path.
"I have to figure it all out before I can do anything."
We don't have to believe we can do it to do it; the decision to act itself has power.
"If I act on what I believe, conflict will break out. I'll be humiliated, ineffective, and rejected."
Conflict means engagement. Something real is in motion. It's an opening, not a closing.
"Our greatest fears are our worst enemies; they drag us down and hold us back."
Our worst fears can be our greatest teachers.
"If I'm really myself, I'll be excluded. If I break connection, I'll be alone forever."
To find genuine connection, we must risk disconnection. The new light we shine draws others toward us, and we become conscious choosers.
"I'm just a drop in the bucket. My effort might make me feel better, but it can't do much."
Every time we act, even with fear, we make room for others to do the same. Courage is contagious.
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from Getting a grip: clarity, creativity and courage in a world gone mad by Frances Moore Lappé.
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22 May
2010
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
via Mahatma Gandhi
22 May
2010
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So sail away from the safe harbor. Explore. Dream. Discover.
via Mark Twain
21 May
2010
The Master Fear: Fear that we will succeed. That we are more than we think we are.
via Steven Pressfield
21 May
2010
Fear has only two causes: the thought of losing what you have or the thought of not getting what you want.
via Byron Katie
21 May
2010
Your problems exist to help you grow. The weights are supposed to be heavy.
via Steve Pavlina
21 May
2010
You're not a failure if you don't make it; you're a success because you try.
via Susan Jeffers
21 May
2010
It's not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
via Seneca
21 May
2010
The only way to get rid of the fear of doing something is to go out and do it.
The "doing it" comes BEFORE the fear goes away.
via Susan Jeffers
21 May
2010
Fear is in the way you look at things, not in the things themselves.
via Anthony de Mello
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