You may or may not have noticed, but most of our fears revolve around What Might Happen in the future. We take these imagined scenarios to be real and we let them guide our decisions and behavior - limiting our choices and in effect creating a future shaped around our fears.
And most of the time our fears about What Might Happen are drearily predictable: fear of failure, fear of success, fear of looking stupid, fear of change, fear of death... on and on ad nauseum. So since our fears are imaginary anyway, why not get crazy, why not give yourself permission to imagine some new, more creative and enjoyable versions of What Might Happen, for instance ~
- the discovery of Atlantis and a whole new race of fish-people
- David Letterman and Slash from Guns n Roses getting married in a Scottish castle and adopting Richard Simmons
- God appearing drunk, live on Oprah
- the Internet becoming sentient and taking a sabbatical in Thailand to get away from the crowds, then dropping out and starting a folk duo with Joaquin Phoenix.
That list actually came from Steve Errey (The Confidence Guy) in a post entitled How To Beat the Fear of Success, where he not only reveals possible futures, but looks at the three main reasons we fear success. It's an interesting article and I hope you enjoy it. Maybe you can come up with some fun fears of your own.
A related RoadKill Post:
What Makes You Come Alive?
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Beat your fears of success by recognizing what’s real and what isn’t. What might happen is not real. What you’re doing right now is real. What matters to you is real. What you’re capable of is real.
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