Day Forty

If you want to run, run the right direction, toward your fears instead of away from them. Everyone wants to avoid pain; it’s the main driving force of human behavior. Becoming a billionaire, however, requires a willingness to go through that which most others would run away from.  Running away from your fears doesn’t require anything unique or special.

If you’re willing to run toward your fears, you’ll soon realize they have no substance. Your fears are merely the illusions your mind has convinced you are real. As you run toward them, they vaporize like the mist they are, and, as they dissolve, your path becomes unobstructed and you become free to receive the reward of the rare and heroic champion you are destined to be.

I’m clinging to the hope that my fears have no power over me. I’m reaching out, stepping out of my comfort zone, and taking a chance I normally would be too frightened to conceive of risking. I’ve suffered immense rejection. It’s not fun. Rejection is the core fear I’ve struggled with my entire life. And yet, as fate would have it, rejection is an inevitable reality I must endure if I am to become a published writer. I have to put myself out there for others to criticize and judge if there is to be any way for my writing to benefit anyone other than myself.

Is it frightening? Yes. Is it worth it? Absolutely.