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Embrace Fear as a Friend

Posted on August 15th, 2007 in Personal Development, Tools, Unafraid

What if fear was my friend? Would this open new avenues for personal development? Comparing friendship characteristics to fear yields some pleasant surprises.

Can fear be my friend? The idea seems unlikely to me at first glance, but my intuition tells me to keep writing with this theme. I’ve lived in and with fear for many years and finally realized that fear was limiting my personal growth.

At one point I stood in front of over 100 people at a retreat and declared I was giving up fear; I was tired of living my life in fear. From that point on I’ve viewed fear as something to overcome, something to get past. But what if fear was actually my friend, and what if I embraced fear as I would a good friend?

Learn to make fear your friend by reading Embrace Rather Than Overcome Fear.

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