30 January 2019 — COURAGE IS NOT THE ABSENCE OF FEAR OR DESPAIR BUT THE STRENGTH TO CONQUER THEM.

Well I have a lot of fear and despair about my next project so HOW DO I FIND THE STRENGTH TO CONQUER THE FEAR AND DESPAIR.

The short answer to this is to simply acknowledge the feelings in my solar plexus area, control the rational mind and do it anyway. I suggest that fear and despair will always be around when we choose to branch out into something new and we have the choice either to deny it by pushing it down or to acknowledge its existence and forge ahead anyway.

Words to the effect that it is our success rather than our failure of which we are afraid have become common place now and although my first response to this is to view it as absurd, I know in my heart there is truth in it. Success means sticking our neck out, being seen, being criticised perhaps rather than praised; whilst if we fail, we remain obscure, unknown, free from the opinions of others hence SAFE.