Handling fear

"The only thing to fear is fear itself," Franklin Roosevelt.

We are all fearful from time to time, but how do we handle fear instead of getting handled by it?

Admit our fears

We can't overcome our fears until we first recognize they exist.

Revealing your feelings IS the beginning of healing.

We must discover the source of our fears.

Are my fears based on facts or on feelings?

Fear can be described as:

False
Expectations
Appearing
Real

We must realize how our fears can limit us.

Studies have shown that 95 percent of what we fear is baseless. The rest are things that we must learn to live with.

The truth is that life is dangerous, damaging to your health, and will eventually kill you, so why not live life to the fullest?

We must accept normal fear as the price of progress.

Anytime I move forward, there will be a natural fear that comes. We can't let fear keep us from taking small steps in our development

We must convert fear into desire and passion.

We are to move ahead, afraid. Do it, afraid. Let is strengthen and stoke your passion instead of tearing it down.

Are you afraid of insignificance? Convert it to the service of others.

We must focus on things we can control.

Remember, what happens to you isn't as important as what happens in you.

We must focus on today and not yesterday or tomorrow.

Yesterday is gone
Tomorrow is not yet here
Today is all we have

We must feed the right emotion and starve the wrong one

Am I going to focus on my faith or am I going to focus on my fear?

Which one am I going to feed? Which one am I going to starve.

Anytime you feel afraid of doing something but go ahead and do it anyway, you are reprogramming your attitude.

When you feel fear, it will mean "go" instead of "stop" and "fight harder" instead of "give up."