Fear

As Franklin Roosevelt said, " the only thing we have to fear is...fear itself". This week  I  have been asked to do something great and terrifying at the same time...address my own fears. I was asked to address my fears about business in particular. If I would have been asked what I was afraid of in starting a business, I probably wouldn't have been able to give an answer...I didn't think I had any. But to my surprise, once I truly pondered this question, the fears could have poured out of me like hot syrup onto a pancake of truth. The act of externalizing each fear and finding a solution before it came to fruition is freeing. I feel more confident that I can avoid these unwanted circumstances, and even if I should be asked to face them that I would be prepared to do what was necessary to claw my way back to even. The most surprising, although it shouldn't have been, was to see that my family's future was my greatest fear. How would this affect us? I shouldn't have been surprised by this pattern, my family is the most important thing to me here, and in Eternity. And would there be a risk with taking no action? Every decision, weather the decision to act or not to act, have a risk or consequence. We can't stay in the same place, life is continually changing and moving on. I want to be proactive in my life and not let my inability to act be my choice!