Does Fear Make You Feel Inadequate?

by Justin Lukasavige on July 15, 2010

Land of OzThe lion is generally known as the King of Beasts, but in the Land of Oz there exists a cowardly lion who is gripped by fear and unable to take action.

That may sound like your life.

Courageous People Lack Fear

Don’t believe it, it’s not true.  Even in cartoons, characters are sometimes paralyzed by fear.  But they take action despite being gripped by it.

Thousands of firefighters run into burning buildings every year.  Don’t tell me those guys aren’t afraid.

Even more people go to the dentist twice a year.  Have you ever been afraid to sit in that chair?  I have.

Action is the Solution

You have to realize that courage isn’t the lack of fear.  Courage is taking action despite the fear.

When will it finally be the right time for you to take action? My wife and I have something on the horizon that scares us to death.  I think at this point we’re going to have to do it just to say we did.

What about you?  What do you need to take action on to overcome your fear?

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  • roborr

    Appropriate Post Justin – and good. It's definitely an issue for me.

  • http://coachradio.tv/ Justin Lukasavige

    So, what are you doing about it Rob?

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  • gpechmann

    My wife wants to me to break off and go straight full time in the business….sometimes I think her head needs examining BUT the same time she has a lot more faith then I do. I have more common sense……

  • http://coachradio.tv/ Justin Lukasavige

    Sounds like my wife. You have a good woman there!

  • roborr

    I think right now it's about clarification. I worry that i'm going to fall in to something over my head, or my abilities will be questioned by potential clients. If I can get really clear on my abilities, business model, the scope and limitation of the services that I want to offer and get a clear plan moving forward it will help overcome that. I think that getting clarity will be key for me which is why I've spent a lot of time on my SSP (but need to revise and clarify some).

  • http://twitter.com/ducinaltumus ducinaltumus

    I've never actually ever heard any one describe courage as a lack of fear. Could you provide citations? It sounds like a rhetorical straw man argument just to set up make an obvious point.

    I like what Aquinas in the 12th Century stated about Courage:
    “We need courage to restrain our fears so that we might endure harrowing circumstances. Yet courage not only mollifies our fears, it also combats the unreasonable zeal to overcome them. An excessive desire to face fearful circumstances constitutes a kind of recklessness that can easily hasten one’s demise. Thus we need courage in order to both curb excessive fear and modify unreasonable daring (ST IIaIIae 123.3). Without courage, we will be either governed by irrational fear or a recklessness that eschews good counsel, making us vulnerable to harm unnecessarily.”

  • http://coachradio.tv/ Justin Lukasavige

    I didn't actually think courage is the lack of fear. As I've highlighted above, “Courage is taking action despite the fear.”

    Your quote lines right up with it. I love it!

  • http://twitter.com/ducinaltumus ducinaltumus

    Justin,

    Yes I cenrtainly know you didn't support the comment on courage being the absence of fear from the point of your post but I was just musing out loud about the source of the comment after hearing the same comment mentioned serveral time over the last week and I was perplexed by it. Thanks

    Andy

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