Fear Strikes When You’re The Weakest

I typically don’t remember many of my dreams but I’ve noticed lately that I’ve been waking up to dreams that have a very bad outcome. Not so much a nightmare but rather just everything turning out wrong. I know I have a lot going on with building a business and a wedding just months away, so it’s no wonder that when my mind is at rest that it’s struggling with some of these issues. Being an entrepreneur you have to walk a fine line of boldness and fear. It’s not wrong to have the fear and I’m really thankful that I’m only having these thoughts when I’m sleeping because I know that this kind of fear can immobilize you. Fear is persistent. It doesn’t go away. Fear will wait for one of your weak moments and then it will strike. Which makes sense that it’s surfacing when I’m asleep. In order to succeed, you can’t let fear beat you or you’ll never move forward.

The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.

Twyla Tharp

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