What If the Thing You’re Afraid of Is Totally Possible?
Don’t let fear steal your dreams
One summer day a few decades ago, I was walking through my neighborhood when a giant brown Doberman came running after me.
He didn’t look like he’d stop until he made a meal of me.
I froze.
I didn’t have a strategy for how to get out of this without getting bitten, mauled, and left for dead. I just chose to face my fear in the moment, the best way I knew how.
By instinct.
I stood as still as a statue. I stared the dog in the eye. It stopped three feet away from me, still barking nonstop. A moment later, I started walking.
The dog barked at me a moment more, then retreated to his yard.
It’s Better to Plan Ahead
I’d probably walked down the same road a hundred times before without incident.
For some reason that day, the dog was off the chain.
You never know what a day may bring. You can’t plan for every possibility. If you want anything to happen by plan instead of by chance, you have to take steps in that direction.
If you drive, you take your life in your hands every time you get behind the wheel. But…
