Oh boy. This post really hits home for me. Fear stops me from moving forward so often. Sometimes I afraid of not doing a certain plot twist justice that I end up with teeny tiny single sentences of progress in my writing for days on end. The longer I’m in the writing game the bigger the fears get. It’s something I’m fighting to overcome every day.
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The single greatest challenge you will face in trying to accomplish anything great is FEAR. FEAR is nothing to be underestimated and we need to learn to manage it if we want to succeed. I remember being a kid and Dune was one of my favorite movies. At the age of ten I memorized Paul Atreides’ mantra:
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
At the time I just thought it was a seriously cool movie line. It was only when I grew older that I began…
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