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| Fight your fears It is a competitive world today people are trying harder and harder to race ahead of their contemporaries. Still we come across some who are unable to work their full potentials. One of the few factors for this issue is a sense of fear within them. Fear is a feeling, which is present in most, only the reason of fear varies from person to person. It can be fear of failure, ridicule, mistake etc. Even those who are very successful in their lives, suffer the pain of fear. Fear of losing that they have, their rivals getting ahead of them or it can be something else. Although over a period of time, such individuals learn how to handle these fears. However, there are many out there who live in fear day in and day out. Fear is an emotion that is not always destructive. In some cases it works to a person’s advantage. It prevents us from getting overconfident and taking things for granted. Such fear is good for all of us, but what is not good is the fear that stops us from realizing our dreams. We tend to postpone our plans; try to pass on the responsibility onto others or simply try to escape our duties. One might highly misjudge such a person to be lazy, who loves to sit idle. They may not understand the reason for such a behavior is the fear that resides within an individual. Now the question arises is, how do we get rid of such an intense emotion out of our lives. Firstly we need to understand the reason for our fears. There could be various reasons like one’s upbringing, failures in the past or our egos. Its not just difficult but impossible to let go of fear in one day. It does take some time to get the devil of fear out of our system. To begin with, we need to get into the root of our fears. Once we understand the reason it will be easier to fight against it. To find out the reason is half battle won. For instance, if you are not comfortable talking in front of a large crowd. You realize this is because once in the past you spoke something irrelevant and people laughed at you. To take this example further, this might have happened long back probably then your knowledge about things was limited, unlike now. Go ahead and give yourself some more try. Even if you are not the hero of the day your fear of public speaking will be reduced to quite an extent. REPEAT DOING THINGS THAT YOU FEAR. Fighting your fears is first recognizing and then eliminating it. It might not be as easy as it sounds here. However it only takes a serious and continuous attempt on your part. Always remember, “What differentiates courageous people from cowards is not the lack of fear but the will to continue even after being frightened”. ms_writy@yahoo.com |
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