Fear Good fear vs. bad fear

Good fear acts as a motivation to be and to do your best, while bad fear is overwhelming and debilitating. It’s ok to experience fear, in fact, in small amounts it’s beneficial. The problem is not experiencing the feelings of fear, but rather being controlled by it. A small dose of fear can stymie decision making and progress.  If bad fear consumes your mind and you worry about history repeating itself, you will tend to dwell on past failures. This creates a doom loop of thinking. Focusing on past failures prove you aren’t capable and that giving up is the only alternative. In fact, the opposite is true. Those failures will make you stronger and better if you allow them to. Courage is overcoming fear, not the absence of it. Taking action is the key to conquering your fears.

“The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but it’s fears.”
-Arthur Christopher Benson

“Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Fear is an insidious virus. Given a breeding ground in our minds, it will permeate the whole body of our work; it will eat away our sprit and block the forward path of our endeavors. Fear is the greatest enemy of progress. Fear must be met and destroyed with courage.”
-Unknown

“Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.”
-Winston Churchill

“One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his greatest surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.”
-Henry Ford

“Living with fear stops us from taking risks, and if you don’t go out on the branch, you’re never going to get the best fruit.”
-Sarah Parish