Throughout our lives, we will constantly face two powerful enemies: fear and doubt. Fear makes us scared to pursue our greatest dreams and doubt makes us believe that we are incapable of doing so.
But we have to be determined to push through all the negativity. We have to take on the challenge of pushing our fear and doubt aside. These are the only ways to fully live in every way and to become who we are supposed to be.
Life is not about not having difficulties or not facing challenges. On the contrary, it’s about moving forward in spite of them. It’s about jumping over whatever it is that is stopping you from becoming all that you can be. It’s about pursuing your dreams and your goals while looking fear and doubt right in the face. It’s about believing in yourself.
Fear and doubt are the things that cripple us the most. They are what cause us to not take risks and to not live our lives to the fullest. If only we would let go of them… if we would only realize that we can overcome and push through the power that they often have over us. It’s hard to let go of them. It’s hard to face them. But once we do, we can finally become free to pursue everything we want and to become all that know deep down we are capable of being.
To get you motivated to push pass your fear and doubt, here is a poem about risk written by one of America’s most quoted writers of inspirational maxims. It supports the idea of how everything you want is on the other side of your fear and doubt:
TO RISK
By: William Arthur Ward
To laugh is to risk appearing a fool,
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach out to another is to risk involvement,
To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self.
To place your ideas and dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss.
To love is to risk not being loved in return,
To live is to risk dying,
To hope is to risk despair,
To try is to risk failure.
But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing.
He may avoid suffering and sorrow,
But he cannot learn, feel, change, grow or live.
Chained by his servitude he is a slave who has forfeited all freedom.
Only a person who risks is free.
The pessimist complains about the wind;
The optimist expects it to change;
And the realist adjusts the sails.
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