Get Caught Up

TODAY'S QUOTE:
"Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.".... Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944)

When fear has control it freezes us rock-solid. Action defrosts us, allowing healthy growth to overcome any threat of frost bite to tender tissue. The tackling of fear broadens our horizons. It strengthens our resolve to get as much as we can out of life. Our strengths are only limited by our perceptions of their true power. Fear only distorts the picture.

Rational images rarely come from a panicked state, where seeing the bogyman is all too common. But he is not real. He is a mind phantom, who only exists if we breath life into any shadow of a doubt that we have about our own ability. Faith and action is our only defense, but they work together in a flawless way to free us from a phantoms grip.

Giving into fright alters the quality of life by stunting growth and narrowing our choices. Living in fear is not a full life, by any stretch of the imagination. Doing something you fear is liberating. You never realize what you can accomplish until you accomplish something you thought impossible.

I make it a common practice to tackle things that I fear. The phantom train of thought is not a mode of transportation I ever want to travel on nowadays. Too many years were already wasted on that journey to nowhere for me to ever willingly board that train again.

Put fear to the test and watch it fail in its battle to keep you from success. Face a phantom and watch it evaporate. Get caught up in life and really live. And as always.... think about it.... let it ride.... then decide!!!!