How Can You Continue To Choose The Right Actions In Every Moment

Fear is the answer

It starts with knowing yourself. Knowing what is right to you. It takes being very honest with yourself. Uncomfortably so.

Last night I spent an hour writing out every possible fear I had. Fear of loss to Fear of effort, all over the map. At the end the only thought in my mind was “I’m scared. And that’s okay.”

Being afraid is normal. Everyone had fears. Acknowledging those fears, determining how they will impact your life, whether they will cause you to make good or bad choices, that is what I believe to be Courage.

Nothing good is ever easy. That starts with the very basic first steps, and ends with the massive challenges we all face. There is an easy path and a hard path in everything we do. I’ve found the easy path to be lies & bullshit. Putting off the hard work doesn’t make it go away. You can ignore your problems all you want. They aren’t going anywhere until you deal with them. You can try to shift the blame all you want. They’re still going to follow you.

Take your health for an example. Have you ever felt that you should go see a doctor, or maybe even a dentist (dentists are way scarier than doctors), but you never did? Maybe you made up the excuse that you didn’t have time, or it wasn’t that important. The truth is that the average person doesn’t know enough about our body to be able to say it’s not important. Going to a doctor is the most surefire way to get to the bottom of things. So maybe you put off going to the doctors yesterday, but whatever was bothering you will still be bothering you. Even if you stopped feeling it, it’s still there, an unknown variable in your health. Confronting it may be the harder option, but really it’s your only long-term beneficial option.

This applies to nearly everything in life. There is a long-term benefit to facing our fears head on. Pushing things to the side in hopes they’ll sort themselves out is just delaying that confrontation and giving the fear time to grow even more. Eventually you’ll hit a point where confronting that fear is too immense and you feel like you simply cannot do it. You still can. It’s still the only path worth taking.

It just takes a lot of courage. A lot of strength. A lot of willpower. While I’m saying “a lot” I’m really meaning far below what every human is capable of, but far above what every human thinks they’re capable of. And there is a startling difference between the two. So ask yourself, what are you afraid of? What about that is effecting your choices? Do you really want to let that drag on forever?

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