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LEAN IN TO IT!

FEAR AS GROWTH

"Fear can be scary. When it surfaces, we are wired to run. To avoid it. To consider it as a bad thing. Not true. In my mind fear is beautiful. An opportunity. A gift. On the other side of every fear that is keeping you small is your natural power (and your authentic greatness). To run from your fear is to run from the brilliance you were meant to be. A fear is nothing more than a doorway into the highest version of your highest vision. The things that scare you are spectacular opportunities to discover more of all you are meant to be. Fear isn't bad. Nope. It's all good. Leads to confidence (if you do what you fear). Leads to self-respect. Promotes growth. Makes you better. So today, at work or at home, if something comes up that causes you to feel like running/avoiding/resisting, don't make a beeline for the door.

Instead, show up like the leader you truly can be – and embrace the opportunity you've been presented. Because what you resist will persist. But what you befriend, you'll transcend.
~Robin Sharma

When you can begin to bring more consciousness to your thoughts and always do your best to interpret situations in a healthy and evolutionary way, instead of thinking that anything could go wrong or stressful, you will find yourself not feeling afraid to move forward in your life. People with a high wealth frequency have an ability to move forward, take big actions even when they feel afraid.

How can you then make fear serve you? Lean in to it. Look at it. See what it is. Why do you feel afraid. Ask yourself this question, why am I afraid? And as the answers surface you will soon realise that it is only your thought and not an actual experience. And more so, soon you will find thoughts that will counter those thoughts and thus focus on them instead, and you will feel the relief in the experience. There is an underlying wisdom in fear, use it. Lean in to it.
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