The best antidote for fear is to confront it. Do not let it bully or intimidate you. You have it within you the courage to overcome your fear.
Make preparation to confront your fear because the alternative of running away from your fear or nursing your fear will only encumber and weigh you down. Choose not to be a wounded soldier even before you have stepped into the battlefield of your fear.
"All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination." -- Earl Nightingale
"The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue." -- Napoleon Bonaparte
"True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is." -- Norman Schwarzkopf
Once you have resolved it in you to confront, say, the school bully or the workplace rascal, you will be up to the challenge as you are poised to step into your fear. As you step forward, your courage builds up automatically and you will find that oftentimes much of your fears are False Evidence Appearing Real (FEAR).
Even when you have faltered or blunder it, do not be afraid. The late Bruce Lee would have you know that, "Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them."
Be strong and courageous. You are well able to overcome your obstacles or problems in life when you face them head on. Seek wise counsel and help from others, as well, if need be.
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.It is our light, not our darkness that frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?Actually, who are we not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We're born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
And as we are liberated from our own fears, our presence automatically liberates others.
(Source: A Return To Love by Marianne Williamson; as quoted by Nelson Mandela in his inaugural speech, 1994)
The paralysis of fear is unforgiving. Choose courage and banish fear; take the baseball bat of courage and hit the ball of fear out of your turf. Way to go!
"You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor." -- Aristotle
