How to Embrace Your Fears and Live a Meaningful Life

5 Steps to Face Your Fears The amount of fear you have to face when you dare to follow your dreams can be overwhelming. Here’s the reality: fear stops you from moving forward. It’s the killer of meaning, purpose and fulfillment. Fear wants you to be average, to stay at home, to quit. Fear wants you to buy into the lie. The lie that dreams aren’t possible. Below I share with you the exact 6 steps I have followed to push through my fears. Step 1: Write Down Your Fears When I first decided to leave education I had many fears. To this day I remember the wisdom of my father: Fear is a reality. If you don’t acknowledge it, you can’t conquer it. Fear is not something to be avoided. Acknowledge it, then you can conquer it. Take out a piece of paper and write down all your fears. Step 2: Identify Your Top Fears Looking at your list of fears, answer this question: Which of these fears would have the greatest positive impact on your life, if you could find the courage to push past them? Circle the number 1 fear. Step 3: Imagine Your Life Without The Fear What is courage? In my eyes, courage is the ability to move forward in the face of fear. If there is no fear, there is no courage. Write down what your life would be like if you conquered this fear. In doing this you are establishing a purpose to conquer these fears. Step 4: Break Your Fear Into Baby Steps Fear often tells us exactly what we need to do. Step 5: Take Action You can run through steps 1 through 4 but it won’t do a darn thing if you don’t’ take action. Whatever plans you developed from steps 1 through 4, go out and make it happen.