The best way to dispel fear and build courage is to take action in the direction of your goals. Without action, talk of courage is just bluster in the wind.
When you have goals in your life, inaction tends to breed fear. Perhaps it is a subconscious signal to yourself that you don’t trust yourself in accomplishing your goals. The longer you procrastinate, the more time you have to think of reasons why you cannot make it.
The longer you sit still and procrastinate on your goals, the more it builds inertia and allows other events in life to creep in and take up space. You have lost the position of authority and influence in your own life.
When you procrastinate on the things important to you, you are in effect telling yourself that you aren’t worthy of your goals and that you are cannot accomplish them.
“An object in motion tends to stay in motion; an object at rest tends to stay at rest.”
When you are not moving, the tendency is for you to stay stagnant. It gets harder to break out of existing habits and thought patterns. And before you know it, you will find that time has passed you by and you are days, if not months down the road of your life and nowhere closer to your goals.
Building Courage Through Action
There is something about taking decisive action that builds courage and momentum. True, you may falter and make mistakes. It’s inevitable regardless of whatever you do. But that’s ok. You can always self-correct along the way.
When you start taking action, no matter how small, it starts to build trust in yourself. With trust comes courage. With action, the fear you have starts to dissipate as you realize that many of your fears exist only inside your mind.
As you take action, you start to build courage and momentum in the direction of your goals.
The Added Benefits of Taking Action
When you are taking action in the direction of your goals, you literally are one step closer to accomplishing them. You are building momentum and confidence. Along the way, you are learning more about what needs to be done as well as improving your self-knowledge.
With action, you also realize where you need to grow as well as what your strengths are. It’s interesting how you start to realize how capable you truly are when you set your mind on accomplishing your goals. You start to recognize that you are capable of filling a place in life that is yours and yours alone.
Everything Is Connected
Many people like to think of how life is a separation of events, people and experiences. The truth is, everything in your life is interconnected in very intimate ways. What affects one part of your life inevitably spills over to others.
Why?
The one constant in your life is you. It’s something you can’t run away from even if you wanted to, right? Everywhere you go, you bring yourself along. Your thoughts, your fears, your strengths, your experiences and everything that you are follows you.
Your beliefs shape your perceptions and actions. Your experience, which is influenced by your actions, ultimately reinforces your beliefs. It’s a circle of cause and effect that is as timeless as life itself.
Only when you do something different are you able to change the effects of what is happening in your life. And when you take action in the direction of your goals, you are introducing something new into the circle of cause and effect.
If fear and inaction is causing a build-up of frustration at the lack of desired results in your life… if you are feeling stagnant and locked in a vicious circle that you just want to get out of… the best way you can do it is to simply take action. And not just any action, but action in the direction of your goals.
Are you tired, afraid and sick of where you are in life? Are you wishing for something more… something better… something good in your life? Are you afraid that you will never amount to anything?
Of all the remedies available, the best way to dispel fear and build courage is to take action in the direction of your goals. Take action, and take action consistently.