All In or Nothing
“Everything you want is on the other side of fear.”
How do you define “risk”?
Sometimes, risk is doing anything that could endanger your life or physical health.
Other times, risk is doing something that could damage your reputation.
Most of the time though, the things we think of as “risks,” are really just reconfigurations of our deepest fears preventing us from living the life we truly desire.
While fear can be useful in some situations, the majority of time, fear does only one thing - it forces us to play small. Outside of the fear of death (which is still real for me), I’ve experienced
Fear of failure
Fear of letting people down
Fear of looking stupid
Fear of saying the wrong things
Fear of being judged
Fear of being average
Fear of being criticized
Fear of not being enough
Fear of rejection
… and certainly more that I could share, but as I was looking through my list, I noticed that the majority of these fears hinge upon other people’s opinion of me. And it dawned on me that my freedom would come in overcoming this one very real, yet very superficial, fear.
If I could learn how to give ZERO FUCKS about what other people thought of me (insofar as I was allowing their opinions to stand in front of my ability to live authentically) I would discover the life and reality I so deeply desired.