Finicky Fear

All emotions are given for a reason. Even the less desirable ones like fear, sadness and anger.

There are good reason for these less desirable emotions, they just need to be managed a lot closer than emotions of joy and other positive ones. Bad emotions tend to move fast and override more sensible emotions.

Fear is an interesting feeling or emotion. It's a very finicky emotion. In some cases it is a great protector. It protects us from potential physical harm. We feel fear and may walk around a dark, wooded field at night. That's a great thing.

But fear is finicky. It can be a good preventative emotion, but is a terrible motivator.

Doing something out of fear is rarely a good thing.

Doing something out of fear usually means the following:

1. You don't understand the "something".
2. You likely are making a bad decision when under the influence of fear. Fear causes us to make illogical and rash decisions.
3. The fear will inhibit you to perform to your fullest. Performance under fear is always hindered.

So we need to manage our fears closely. Allow fear to protect us, but not too much.

Fear will protect us from reaching and growing.

We cannot allow fear to motivate us. It's a bad base of motivation and usually has a very limited lifespan. You can only run so long on fear, it's a fuel that burns very quickly.

Use reverse fear rather than fear itself. By this I mean, use fear of the right things.

Fear never having lived. Fear never having started. Fear never having understood. Fear never having loved. Fear living your life in fear.

Turn fear on itself and now you have something good. Maybe a math principle applies here, two negatives create a positive.