Standing in Your Truth: The Sweet Spot for Success

Because of you, fear, I can courageously move forward into the unknown -- which is always the juicy spot, the sweet spot and the first step on my path to success.
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Close-up portrait. Surprise, fear and horror.Woman covering her face with two hands hand and looking between her fingers.
Close-up portrait. Surprise, fear and horror.Woman covering her face with two hands hand and looking between her fingers.

Fear, my old friend, I recognize you now when you come to me in the night, disguised as bills, illness, heartbreak, grief or disappointment.

I recognize you by the stirring in my gut as you approach, the quickening of my heart, the frantic pacing of my thoughts. Ah! It is only you! And you, fear, are not real!

You are the boogeyman I planted in my closet. The one I told to awaken me in the night so I would learn to dance with you instead of cry. So I would learn to use you as fuel to help me reach my next level. So I would see ultimately that you are my friend, my fertilizer, my divine companion on this journey to rediscover my soul.

I embrace you, fear, because without you I would be nowhere. I would never have jumped off my first cliff into the unknown. I would never have stepped into my first terrifying adventure that changed everything. I would never have found my voice. Because without you, fear, I would still be sleeping.

I embrace you fear because I know that when I turn away from you -- I make my bravest choices; I take steps in a new career direction; I quit the job that isn't working; I stand in my truth.

Because of you, fear, I can courageously move forward into the unknown -- which is always the juicy spot, the sweet spot and the first step on my path to success.

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