Fear is a choice.

It’s kinda true; it’s just the way we chose to interpret a set of events and emotions.

For example, I used to hate public speaking; I would get butterflies in my stomach and I would get super nervous.

Now I kinda like it, but I still get butterflies in my stomach… now I just interpret these feelings and emotions as excitement instead of fear.

This really pisses me off, because for some reason I have let myself choose to be scared of stupid things, like starting a conversation with someone in a lift, or being scared to pursue my ambition to create my own business.

Take a moment to think about what you’re scared of and realise just how stupid and irrational it (probably) is. Like I’m scared of being rejected by a girl? Why? I don’t know. It doesn’t make sense and it’s nothing to be ashamed of, yet I, and a lot of you, fear it.

Unfortunately, there is no button we can press to just stop this; it has been ingrained in our brains over years.

Luckily, when we are aware of this we can slowly take baby steps to fix this; in the last few days I’ve forced myself to chat to strangers in the lift because it is stupid to be scared not to. I don’t always want to chat to strangers in lifts, but I don’t want to be scared not to, because frankly that’s ridiculous.

I’m also just smiling at people more because again it’s just stupid to be scared to interact with strangers.

It really bugs me how stupid fear is, and I’m going to take baby steps to overcome it.
Join me and do the same to try and get this silly irrational behaviour out of our system.

-Mike

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