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How I Overcome Fear

In 2008 with the economy in recession, his hotel business Joie de Vivre sinking around him, a family member wrongly convicted and in San Quentin prison, five close friends recently lost to suicide—his heart just stopped. He was 47 years old. For an hour while doctors worked on him he came in and out of consciousness. “I was dead,” he told me during a recent conversation. “Flatline.”

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Samuel, 32 Feb 22, 2012
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Face your fear to become stronger.You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. .

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Louis, 31 Feb 22, 2012
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if you have to handle a big fear, whatever it may be, and later realise you actually survived it, many things in life you may have feared previously seems to shrink. Those fears become smaller. They might even disappear.

Amy, 33 Feb 22, 2012
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Take action and get busy.Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

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Joseph, 34 Feb 22, 2012
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You can’t sit around think and waiting for courage and confidence to come knocking on the door. If you do, you may just experience the opposite effect. The more you think, the more fear you build within.

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Annie, 31 Feb 22, 2012
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Be curious.Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.

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Pamela, 34 Feb 22, 2012
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When you are stuck in fear you are closed up. You tend to create division in your world and mind. You create barriers between you and other things/people.

Mark, 35 Feb 22, 2012
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Curiosity is filled with anticipation and enthusiasm. It opens you up. And when you are open and enthusiastic then you have more fun things to think about than focusing on your fear.

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Bobby, 30 Feb 22, 2012
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Curiousness also opens you up to gain understanding of something. And with understanding vague, fog-like fears disappears.

Raymond, 33 Feb 22, 2012
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I really like this post. Well written with great content. Fear is my greatest enemy when it comes to the pursuit of my goals. This post gives me some great ammunition when fighting these success deterrents!

Lawrence, 32 Feb 22, 2012
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awesome post...Great way to put it. Overcoming fear is so vital to our success, and this post is a great guide to getting there.

Cynthia, 33 Feb 22, 2012
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Great article. In my life I’ve also found that most often the things we fear are minor once we face up to them.

Andrea, 30 Feb 22, 2012
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I love this post. I often feel fearful. Quite often. I can’t really say that I get over it, only that i just don’t let it stop me. Even as i go through the experience, i still feel the fear, but i guess you can say that i “do it anyway”.

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Jason, 33 Feb 22, 2012
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This shows that there is plenty of knowledge out there but one must have the courage to apply it.

Peter, 32 Feb 22, 2012
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Fear, once we face it down and befriend it, can be our greatest asset. Why make an enemy of it? Like hostile people, we can regard taming fear as a challenge.

Rose, 31 Feb 22, 2012
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Your article is right on target. It shows how much of fear is perception. Right now there is one thing I fear and am trying to work on. I realize I have to change my views of it and to face it. I have started by reading up on my fear and am in the process of making an action plan, but I have yet to face it.

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