"Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy."
~ Dale Carnegie
I’m back! Sorry I haven’t written in a few days. I had zip line training on Friday and I facilitated on Saturday. It really wore me out.
It’s very rewarding work to facilitate people walking through their fears. I am getting better at the technical aspect and more aware of the part I get to play. As I was watching one of the participants on the pole leap, I got to witness the moment at which someone overcomes fear. She was stuck at the top of the pole and needed to put one foot up and stand and she felt paralyzed. She held on and kept over thinking it. She wanted to give up. I talked her through it and suddenly there was the moment when she took the step and stood up with her legs trembling. She did it. She crossed over from “I can’t” to I’m going to just go for it. In that moment she found courage.
That moment is such a metaphor for so many things in our lives. When can sit and analyze something to death but nothing changes until the moment we take the step and do it anyway despite the fear that we feel. The key is to feel the fear and do it anyway. The fear is not a sign not to do something. The fear is telling you that you haven’t done it and that your cant. It’s your ego saying you don’t have what it takes. You can do anything you want badly enough, you just have to take that step. You have to trust that you have what it takes. Find the courage and the support to make it happen.
Today, I am grateful that I have the courage to go back to school.
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