Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life: How to Unlock Your Full Potential for Success and Achievement

MOVE TOWARD THE FEAR
The only difference between the brave person and the coward is
that the brave person confronts the fear and deals with it while the
coward turns from the fear and flees from it.
And here is a great discovery. When you confront a fear and
move toward it, it diminishes and grows smaller. It loses its hold
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over you. But if you back away from a fear, it grows larger and soon
takes control of your thoughts and feelings.
When you habitually turn toward danger, do the thing you fear,
face the fear, and move toward it bravely, it loses its power to affect
you. Soon you dominate the fear rather than having it dominate
you. You feel a tremendous sense of control. The quality that you
need to face your fears, more than anything else, is the quality of
self-discipline.
Wonderfully enough, when you discipline yourself to face your
fears, to act courageously, even when you don’t feel like it, your fear
situation goes away. You will feel terrific about yourself. You will
have a sense of power and control over your life.
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