“The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.†– Sven Goran Eriksson Here I am, just beyond the midpoint of my personal social experiment, and I’ve hit my first real obstacle. The nothingness. Not the nothingness that comes with nihilism but the nothingness that comes with literally no fear based obstacles in my …
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Day Four: Slaying the Phone Dragon Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive — the risk to be alive and express what we really are. – Don Miguel Ruiz The phone rings. The phone rings again. The phone rings yet again. If it rings …
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DAY THREE – Thwarted by Timing, Saved by Asking For Help You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do. – Eleanor Roosevelt Facing my fears has proven just as difficult as I …
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DAY TWO – Getting a Name and Assigning a Penalty I have an amazingly difficult time initiating conversation, even with people I know. In group situations I tend to sit back, observe the flow of the conversation and then if I feel I can add something or have a question to ask, I contribute. Unless …
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Are you familiar with the 90s movie by Albert Brooks, Defending Your Life? The basic premise is a man dies, goes to a purgatory where his life is analyzed to determine if he has conquered fear. If has hasn’t conquered fear he goes back to Earth for another go around. If he has, he gets …