“Face your fears and overcome them…”

I’ve heard it said over the years… I’ve preached it over the years… and I’ve lived by it over the years. Every fear I’ve had, I’ve faced it head on and looked it in the eye to overcome it…

The thing is… most people teach and preach to “overcome” fear… that fear is created in the mind and it can be destroyed there… heck I teach that. But, I’ve come to learn that there are two sides of dealing with fear… there is OVERCOMING fear and EMBRACING it.

So which is it? Sometimes, it’s both…

Sometimes overcoming fear is all about letting it PUSH you to become something… something “more…”

Every fear that I’ve had… of failure, of judgement, of being inadequate, of being looked down on, of rejection… I found myself pushing HARDER… working harder at BECOMING BETTER… PREPARING more diligently… PRACTICING more often… STUDYING with more focus…

I didn’t WANT to experience these things so I gave MORE of myself so that I would see less of it.

Now understand… failure, rejection, judgement… all the things that can cause fear are going to come… but when you learn from it and grow through it… you become something more. And as you become more… the fear of it will no longer matter.

And THAT my friends… is being FEARLESS!