Do One Thing Everyday That Scares You

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Do one thing everyday that scares you. There are so many things that are scary... or maybe they just seem that way to us? We encounter them everyday, but it is up to us, how to deal with them, or maybe not to deal with them at all and to try to avoid them. It would be easier to avoid them and save yourself from all the unpleasant feelings you may get, but the easiest way is not the best. It is actually the most worthless way. You can not achieve anything important if you do not risk. No risk gives you safety in where you already are, but it does not get you further, it does not give you things you wish you had. But why don’t you go and try to take them, instead of wishing you had them ? These things seem so scary to us because we are afraid to incur in a situation that may make us feel bad afterwards, we are so afraid of doing things that may make us feel uncomfortable and lose the ground under our feet, that we actually lose much more than that – we lose many opportunities. We can even lose friends or loved ones, because we are too afraid to tell them how we really feel, afraid to apologize etc. But what can we lose if we take a shot ? It is not the thing itself that is so scary – it is the outcome that is, because we can never know how everything will turn out, but we have already lost if we sit around and do nothing rather than try to do something. Everyone should remember that there is not only a chance that they will fail, feel bad and miserable after doing something risky; actually you do not have to feel that way if things do not turn out as you want, what makes you feel bad is your attitude. If it does not work out as you wanted, maybe it is just not meant to be. Of course there is also an upside – we can actually get lucky and it can turn out that the thing we were so afraid of doing, is actually not that bad and maybe it is even

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