FEAR (Forget Everything And Run or Face Everything And Rise)

Fear is the number 1 stumbling block that stopping people from achieving more in their life. It can be from fear of rejection, fear of uncertainty or unknown to fear of failure. All this has to do with how we are being raised and the education that corrupted our minds.

How did we all being trained to take failure as some form of negative? Firstly, during the school day, most of the students are measure of their academic performance by how high they can score in each of the subject that they take exam on. If you can’t get high score, you are subject to humiliation and insult because some school will put the low scores students in the same class while those that can score high in another group call Elite. This is so wrong because then we are judging all the students the same. Everyone is a genius. If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it will live whole life believing that it is stupid.

Failure is not a negative but simply the learning curve in the journey to success. It is definitely not the opposite of success. The opposite of success is mediocre where those who did absolutely nothing but just strolling through their life tipping their toe hoping to arrive at their graveyard safely. Is that the life that you really want to live?

Rejection is another part that human can’t really take it lightly and always get too emotional about it. Whatever you do in life, you can’t expect to have everyone to agree with you. I am sure you heard of the story about a couple with a donkey walking pass a village. When they walk together with the Donkey, the villager question why are they so stupid not to ride the donkey. When the husband rides the donkey while the wife walks, some villager said the husband is inconsiderate letting the wife walk while he rides so comfortably. Then the husband switches with the wife but some villagers commented the wife is heartless letting the husband walk despite he has been so hard working to support the family. Finally, both of them riding on the donkey and still there are some villagers said both of them are so cruel because the donkey is so tiny yet need to carry both of them.

You are not living other people life so why do you need to take their comments and feedback. If you buy their comment, you are buying into their lifestyle. Their comments don’t pay for your bills.

Uncertainty and unknown are not something that we as human looking forward to because we want something comfortable and that we are used to the environment. For instance, if we are planning to migrate, it is definitely a nerve wrecking experience because we don’t know the new environment, where to get grocery, how to get our daily errands done and so on. If you realize after a while, it will be the usual common environment that we used to be in before this. In our daily life, if we are given a new task or project then we somehow become uncomfortable since we have never done it before. After a while, it will be the usual regular tasks that we handled and become a routine for us.

So which type are you? Forget Everything And Run or Face Everything and Rise and I definitely hope it is the latter…