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Being Afraid of Your Future Is a Good Thing
You can be afraid and hopeful at the same time.
Can I be honest with you? I’m afraid and nervous about 2020.
I’ve set some goals I wish to reach by the end of the year, such as getting to five-thousand followers and writing an article every day, and I’m terrified I won’t reach them.
I’m frightened I won’t be able to put in the necessary work, that I’ll struggle, that I’ll fall short. There are so many fears that I kept willing myself to stop them.
“I shouldn’t be this afraid,” I thought. A couple of days later, I called bullshit on that thinking because I remembered one thing: You don’t have to stop your fears. You just can’t let your fears stop you.
What is courage?
The difference between those we label as courageous and those we label cowards isn’t the number of fears they have. It’s likely that a brave person and a “coward” have identical fears.
The difference is that the coward will let their fears consume them until they’ve become paralyzed.
The courageous person, however, will act in spite of their fears. They’ll take those screaming concerns and crush them into a small ball they throw into the corner wastebasket of their brain. Then, they begin.
