Fear – The Monster in the Closet

Fear is no stranger to any of us. In fact, it might be said that fear is one of the greatest killer of dreams and slayer of passions. Fear turns us away at the very moment we find ourselves standing on the brink of unimaginable success. It falsely declares that the possible is impossible. And it herds us into the suffocating corrals of mediocrity.

The solution is not the elimination of fear, although our instinct frequently tells us that elimination of them is the obvious course of action. Rather, it is the effective management of fear. One vitally critical way that we do that is by understanding that groom our fearsto become monsters that they in reality are not. Far too often we feed our fears to gargantuan proportions, leaving us wrestling with something that is wildly bigger than what it really is. In dealing with our fears, it is critical that we see our fear for what it is, not what we’ve created it to be.