How I learn to deal with fear
In today's world filled with hi-tech devices and a "Go-Go-Go!" mentality, we are as stressful as ever. When stressed, our ability to control and overcome fear is marginalized considerably. Fear is really quite the controversial emotion. We need this emotion to prevent us from doing potentially harmful things like putting our head in an alligator's mouth. Yet too much fear prevents us from doing anything meaningful at all. Susan Jeffers's Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway is a gem. This self-help classic offers pragmatic ways to deal with the topic of fear. Allow me to share with you a few of my favorite lessons. 1) What do you supposed is the biggest fear of all? Susan declares that the biggest fear that each of us faces is ... wait for it (imagine Barney from How i met your mother)... the fear that we can't handle whatever life brings . "What? That's it", you may ask, "What about heavy stuff like death, cancer, terrorist attack" Give i...