By the Ocean
Breeeeeezeeeee 76 Degrees
5:13 a.m.
If they can get you to fear, they win. If they can get you to shrink back, they win. If they can get you to shy away from your dreams and believe they are little more than the make believe games of a child, they win.
I have felt fear on this path of the entrepreneur virtually every day of my life beginning with the very first steps way back in 2002.
It does not go away. It has not changed at all.
The Matrix conditions you to chase safety. To run for cover. To prepare for a rainy day. That is not direction given in your best interest, it is conditioning offered to turn you from your path.
To even DARE venture out on your own, away from the safety of the Matrix prison puts you in a very rare crowd.
Fear is not bad. Fear is not to be avoided. Fear is the activated energy that exists in the presence of freedom. You think it feels “uncomfortable” because that’s what you have been taught. You gave it a name with four letters because a better one was never offered.
While the feeling of fear hasn’t changed in my body, my capacity to carry it has. My understanding of it has. My gratitude for it has. My ability to transform it has.
I have learned that the goal is not to make it go away but to use it to become a better and more powerful version of myself today than I was yesterday.
When you feel it, don’t stop. Don’t slow down. Just carry forth in the direction you know is the right one for you. That is why you came.
Take action. Every day. Over and over again as you find your way. Some days you might make millions. Other days you might offer it (and more!) back as payment for “education” you needed to grow.
What do you do with the fear?
Welcome it as a sign that you are venturing beyond the prison. Understand it as a clue that YOU have demonstrated the ability to choose the life you want to live over the plan someone else had for you. Use it as energy on the journey knowing that, the greater your capacity becomes to hold its power, the more force your creations will have in the world.
The fear shows you the way. The obstacles show you the way. The challenges show you the way.
Do not allow them to create constriction. Develop the ability to relax, to loosen your grip on control and lean into that which you fear until you discover the lessons and magic it holds for you on your journey.