Eleanor Roosevelt said that we should do “at least one thing every day” that scares us. Later, Erma Bombeck concurred, adding that real courage is tested when “taking children into a house with a white carpet.”
I started to learn how to swim this New Year; the instructor, a seasoned coach and now retired, prodded me slowly to the really warm kids’ pool, and showed me how blowing bubbles into the water would not be defined as an act of suicide. I blew them. And lived. My next lesson is next week, and promised to practice the bubble blowing until then.
What about you? Anything scary, white, or drowning that you want to work through? How will you start?
3 key reasons to keep fear from feasting on your dreams:
- fear is what you make it
- you’ll discover yourself
- the universe needs you