Fear Is a Choice
Preparing yourself can help you face any situation in business and life
Chris Erickson
February 25, 2019 Updated: February 25, 2019
Your company is downsizing.
Your marriage is disintegrating.
Your startup is failing.
Your doctor’s office is calling.
What if I told you that this was actually the time to be afraid? What if I told you that fear was a choice that you could either make for yourself or have made for you?
The truth is, it’s not about learning how to live a life without fear or even necessarily about figuring out how to “master your fear.†Those are both fine sentiments if you’re writing an origin story for a comic book hero, but that isn’t how real life works. Fear exists, but it’s only when you give it control over you that it becomes destructive.
When Pope St. John Paul II famously said, “Be not afraid,†during his inaugural homily, after having become the head of the Catholic Church, he wasn’t telling us to somehow eradicate fear from our lives. He was calling us to a higher level of awareness, one in which we don’t submit to fear as the ruler of our lives.
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