<![CDATA[Leonie McIlvenny - Blog]]>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 23:37:26 -0800Weebly<![CDATA[Feel the Fear and do it anyway]]>Sat, 26 Apr 2025 03:46:38 GMThttps://www.leoniemcilvenny.com/blog/feel-the-fear-and-do-it-anyway
Susan Jeffers wrote the groundbreaking book: Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway which I still revisit when I get stuck making a decision about something. As always, the hesitation comes back to some form of fear.  Susan identifies 5 truths about fear: I hope you find them useful.
We are all afraid of something.....
​We fear beginnings; we fear endings.
We fear changing; we fear staying stuck.
We fear success; we fear failure.
We fear living; we fear dying.
TRUTH 1
Fear will never go away as long as you continue to grow
TRUTH 2
The only way to get rid of fear of doing something is to go and do it
TRUTH 3
The only way to feel better about myself is to go out and do what makes me afraid
TRUTH 4
Not only am I going to experience fear whenever I am in unfamiliar territory, but so is everyone else.
TRUTH 5
Pushing through fear is less frightening that living with the underlying fear that comes from feeling helplessness.
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