Fighting Fear

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Friday, October 18

What wins have you had in the last week? Last month? Last quarter? Last year? Write them down. As many of them as you can think of, doesn’t matter how big or small.

My guess is you’ve had a lot more wins than you realized. A lot more has gone right than you remembered. Why is that? Because our brains default to the negative. Our minds focus more on the things we didn’t get, the goals we didn’t accomplish, the wins we didn’t have. And the next time you set out to accomplish something or take a significant step, your mind reminds you of how it went the last time you tried something and failed.

And you play small. You don’t take the step. You let fear win.

To get over it and take the steps you know you need to take, build confidence with your list of wins. So that when your mind says, “Remember when you failed at this?” you can say, “Sure, but I’ve succeeded at all of these things.” Then you step forward with confidence.

Because fear doesn’t fight fair. It will lie to you, trick you, manipulate truths. Whatever it can do to get you to stay put. You have to arm yourself for battle. You have to have weapons to fight it and, I’m sorry to tell you, hope never won any wars and it certainly won’t win the war for your mind.

When you fight your fear with your purpose, you unlock your potential.
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Keep chopping wood. 🪵🪓

-Kevin

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