I have actually been scared of succeeding. Wtf?!?
This reminds me when I was a child when I would shy away from things because I did not know what was on the other side. Here I was six years old in the kitchen and my dad stood in front of me and said "Go play with the kids at the playground. Make some friends you'll have fun." I immediately shot back with "But daddy I'm scared. What if the kids don't like me?" He replied, "Boy go to the playground and have fun." "Yes daddy", I replied and walked out the door. As I was walking towards the playground I felt my heart pounding and then I started thinking to myself "man what if they don't like me?" I got to the playground and all the kids were playing on the swings and there were a lot of swings. I found the first free swing, ran and jumped on it and started swinging. But then I noticed that the other kids were jumping out the swing. So I got halfway up and jumped out the swing myself. That's when the unexpected happen for me. The other kids laughed and smiled and yelled at me "do it again, that was so cool!" I spent the rest of the afternoon swinging as high as I could and jumping out of the swings. I got along with the kids and they liked me and I liked them. Every time I jumped out the swing it felt like I was flying. I learned two things that day. I learned how to fly by swinging and I learned that what was on the other side of my fear of the kids not liking me was pure bliss. But I had to walk to the playground in order to find that out. I recently started implementing Daniel's goalsetting from his book The Legendary Life. I have momentum going in my life right now. But now a new problem has emerged. I feel the fear of my dream life starting to come into focus. WTF?!? 😳 This has caught me off guard. Well........... I gotta be like the six-year-old me and walk to this playground of my dreams, get on the swings so I can jump out and learn how to fly. Maybe this time too, I'll find out that making my dreams a reality can also be pure bliss.