The Fear Bubble

Forget the past. You can’t change it. It has no power over you. And forget the future too. You can’t control that either. You can only change your life in the present. All that matters is right now.

But if you’re smashing through those doors – even if a lot of the time you’re falling flat on your face – you’re nobody’s loser. You’re living. Keep on at it. Keep accruing those scars and calluses. Keep learning those lessons. You’ll grow. You’ll succeed. It’s inevitable.

you’ll never be successful, because ‘success’ is not a place that exists in the real world. Success is a feeling.

That worst-case scenario almost never happens. Th

The fact is, when you’re scared you’re in fight-or-flight mode. The only thing that’s actually, truly happening is ‘Get ready’. Your body is priming itself for action. All the rest is chatter.

I found myself high on the spirit of adventure, which is the greatest buzz I know.

There’s not much else that can fill me with such simple childish delight as the sight of an airport sign spelled out in an unfamiliar alphabet.

This is all of human life. We live our days in a corridor that’s lined with doors. Each one of those doors is frightening to open. This is why, nine times out of ten, we choose to step back from them, leaving them closed. But whenever we muster the courage to step through them, we emerge into a new and better corridor, one that’s lined with even more doors that are even scarier to open. Becoming the person we want to be, with the life we’ve always dreamed of living, is simply a matter of developing the courage to open more doors.

When you manage to harness the power of your own fear and go looking for bubbles to pop, amazing things begin to happen.

Without fear, there’s no challenge. Without challenge, there’s no growth. Without growth, there’s no life.