jdrobidasWhat would your life look like without fear? How many times have you done things you didn’t want to do, or haven’t done the things that you really want to do because of fear?
The big “what if” seems to haunt us in so many ways.
What bold risks would you take if you simply refused to fear? What absolutely insane thing would be pioneered through you if you were just mean to fear.
Our world is changing before our eyes. Things are happening faster then ever before. There are CEOs of thriving companies, church planters, band leaders, authors, and artists making it BIG in their teens, twenties, and thirties like never before.
Those who are pioneers faced the same fears that you have. Maybe the only difference is that they stared fear down and refused to let it keep them on the well trodden path of normalcy and status-quo.
Yeah, people criticized. They were told they wouldn’t make it. Other people in the past would have figured it out if it was really a better solution at all. Sound familiar?
The Catholic Church told John Calvin(who was one of the great church reformers) that if what He found was truly in the Bible then the priests before him would have seen it the way he was describing it. But since what John Calvin saw was totally different then how tradition defined it they told him to leave it alone. Now there are millions of us that are so glad that John didn’t listen to all of those who tried to scare him away from change.
One man who was unwilling to bow to fear made an impact in the world we live in.
I wonder what impact you will make if you refuse to cave in to fear-pressure.
“Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.” – George Patton
The only way to really beat fear is to take that big scary step right over the big fat “what if” that is standing in front of you.
Oh. One more thing. Contrary to what most fear promoters say, very few honest mistakes are forever. I for one would rather live life audaciously, impact my generation and make mistakes then never take any risks and live out a dull mediocre life without ever tapping into my true potential.
Fear pressure is overrated.
