Halloween is a good time to expand on fear.
What is it about fear that makes us so scared,
and so frightened to act?
Fear is a basic human emotion and response
in the face of danger. Fear has played a key
role in our survival as a species, although
when we feel the effects of fear, we might not
like it at the time.
Fear can galvanise us into action, but it can
also paralyse us into inaction. The cause of
fear can be rational, or irrational, but the
effect will be the same.
In his Inaugural Presidential address to Americans
in a time of great crisis, Franklin Roosevelt
famously said, “We have nothing to fear
but fear itself.”
How do you cope when faced with fear? When
asked this very question, Donald Trump, the
famous New York property developer said, “I
look at the worst case and if I can handle the
downside, the upside will take care of itself.”
“A life lived in fear is a life half-lived.”
This is a Spanish proverb that captures perfectly
how much we stand to miss out on if we are held
in check by the grip of fear. Who wants to live
a life at half-ebb? Do you know people like
this?
How would it feel to never experience the joy
of swimming, for fear of drowning. To miss out
on the exhilaration and experience of travel,
for fear of flying. This is the price some people
pay for hanging on to their fear.
Is this the reason so many people in Australia
miss out on the huge potential of the investment
property market as a source of future income?
Are they frightened of making a mistake? Of
being ripped off? Of it not working out? Of
looking like a fool? Of losing money instead
of making it?
These are all legitimate fears, however many
can be avoided through information and education.
The opportunities are logical, clear, and proven
many times over. All you need to do is take
the recipe and mix in some action, which in
the first instance, could merely be a discussion
on the topic. By simply avoiding the issues,
and allowing fear to hold you back, you may
be throwing away a huge opportunity to gain
future reward.
We would like to leave you with these words
of encouragement from Pope John XXIII:
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your
dreams.
Think not about your frustrations, but about
your unfulfilled potential.
Concern yourself not with what you tried and
failed in,
However, with what it is still possible for
you to do.
Pope John XXIII
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Happy Halloween! |
