Do You have the Courage to Confront Your Fears and Grow?

Ask yourself a question; Am I brave and courageous enough to fight battles? No, we are not talking about battles in the land of Iraq or Israel. But the battles on your own turf or rather inside your turf. The battle of fighting your fears and insecurities. If the answer is affirmative, congratulations! You have won for yourself a ticket to the Hall of Success and Satisfaction. And if you are in doubt, read this through, you might be ready with an answer. Each one of us have faced moments in life, when things seemed beyond our reach or we felt diffident about them. But we have two options here, either give in to your diffidence or give a chance to your confidence. And the good confidence asks very little from you to visit you. You just have to say "At least let me give it a shot." When this is said, half the battle is already is won, because you have put faith in yourself. We attribute miracles to certain saints and God because we have faith in them. When we put similar faith in our abilities and cross the barrier of fear and uncertainty, miracles begin to happen in our professional and personal lives. When ten people work towards the same target, it is obvious that only one will win, but what makes the other nine winners in their own right is that they believed in themselves, to be able to reach the target. People, at times, surely think that all this talk and writing on attitude, self-belief, etc, comes because some people are good at writing it. But this writing is not a figment of imagination. It's being written because it has actually happened with people and they have witnessed the change in their lives when they adopted the attacker's policy towards their fears instead of defense. What do we fear? Fear of failure, fear of rejection or fear of being spoofed at? There are three outcomes for any action, the two ends being success and failure and in between lies the vast space of satisfaction. But if our fears overpower us so much that we turn our back to the task itself, satisfaction and success are always going to be the neighbor's pride. Just once, for the sake of psychological experiment, challenge your fear and let out the butterflies from your stomach. Take this as a guaranteed outcome, you will feel wonderfully light and content. Contentment gives confidence. And this confidence will make fear disappear like smoke in air. The worst thing you can do to yourself is underestimate your potential. It's contradictory enough that where man is increasingly turning self-centered, he still undermines his self-worth. Of course braggadocios do not succeed either. But why should we preconceive the outcomes? It is only fair and just that you give yourself a chance. Thousands of us suffer from the fear of public speaking. We fear that we might fumble on stage. But isn't it only natural to halt in between to recollect our thoughts. So why worry so much? At times we keep quiet during a public discussion, fearing that others may not agree to our opinion and find it incongruous. But it actually means that you have a completely new and different viewpoint on the subject that others hadn't thought of. So should you voice your distinctiveness or let your fear shadow it? This is just one of the fears we come across, but all other fears are equally baseless and self-created. "To be or not to be", is all in the mind. The great poets and writers like Robert Frost, John Keats, Alfred Tennyson, were normal people like you and me. And the publishers were under no obligation to showcase their works. Who knows, even they must have faced the fear of rejection or the cynicism of self-doubt. But it is apparent that they confronted those fears and defeated them to become legends of literature. There are innumerable aspiring and talented writers and poets around, but if you are plagued by your own insecurity and diffidence, the world will lose out on some future Shakespeare and Wordsworth. And it is not limited to literature alone. You could be the next Bon Jovi, or the future Lincoln to lead your generation or Swami Vivekanand, whose words and speeches influenced thousands. It would be a crime of untold magnitude if you are going to let your fear dwarf your growth and cloud your starry future. How will you forgive yourself for this crime? Your destiny is in your hands so don't let your fear handicap you. The talk on motivation is not fictitious; it comes from real people's real experiences and attitude. So put faith in it and in yourself and stars will begin to fall on earth. Remember, "Until you believe in yourself, no one else will." Artile by www.mindbodynsoul.com