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Do The Thing You Fear Most...

Do The Thing You Fear Most... Do The Thing You Fear Most... and the death of fear is certain ~ Mark Twain 

Fear... I am the menace that lurks in the paths of life, never visible to the eye but sharply felt in the heart.  I am the father of despair, the brother of procrastination, the enemy of progress, the tool of tyranny.  Born of ignorance and nursed on misguided thought, I have darkened more hopes, stifled more ambitions, shattered more ideals and prevented more accomplishments than history could record.

Like the chameleon, I assume many disguises.  I masquerade as caution.  I am sometimes known as doubt or worry.  Whatever I am called, I am still fear, the obstacle of achievement.  I seek to destroy inspiration, passion, innovation and creativity.  I will stop at nothing to squelch your dreams.   

I know no master but one; its name is Understanding.  I have no power but what the human mind gives me, and I vanish completely when the light of Understanding reveals the facts as they really are.  I am Fear... and without you, I am powerless.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain ~ Mark Twain

9 commentsMel Peterson - The Naked Blogger • May 23 2011 12:28PM