Posts Tagged ‘Fear’

 

How To Overcome Fear, Timidity & Self Pity

As a boy I struggled with all three of these giants. They particularly played a dominant role in my life when I was nine years old and my parents decided to invite a twelve-year-old boy to live with us. Being super-athletic, on the very first day he attended my school, he was challenged to race [...]

Why Fear Is Not All That It Is Cracked Up To Be

A young man called Digger was delivering a package for a friend to a nearby farm.  He’d finally reached old Smither’s place.  It was nothing spectacular.  A farmhouse.  It was looking a bit dilapidated and weather worn.  To the left of the old house was a barn and  the yard was strewn with pieces of [...]

How To Risk More & Fear Less

All my life I have been taking risks – and I’m still breathing. Whenever facing yet another challenge in my life – and they do come from time to time – I often look at my wife and say, ‘Well I’m not dead yet.’ The fact is that until you’re dead there is so much [...]

The Way To Aim Far Beyond Your Capability

‘Aim beyond what you are capable of.’ Paul Arden Each of us has been endowed with gifts and talents peculiar to any other person, and you and I don’t have a clue of what we are capable of until we try. Someone once challenged me to shoot for the stars, and if I missed them [...]

How To Defeat Your Fears

I recently spent four days with my wife and youngest daughter on the southern tip of The Great Barrier Reef, found on the east coast of Australia – on an island called Brampton Island. Paradise is an understatement. The water was pristine. There was no interruption to my daily relaxation routine by email or phone. [...]

Faith Your Fears

Fear attacks without warning. It can assault you in the early morning before you arise from your bed. It can pierce your heart in broad daylight and then it can confront you in the deepest and darkest of nights. Fear can be triggered by a statement, a bill, a phone call, a word or simply [...]