Right after you felt the fear – what did you do? And then what?
Whenever you’re scared of something, don’t let that define you. We all feel it, but step up.
— Vince Vaughn
On January 10, 2011, in her evening news report, ABC correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi interviewed three “ordinary” people – a young intern, a retired military officer, and tiny slip of a woman – who each in their own way “used whatever they had, to do what they could” in the immediate aftermath of the Tucson shooting tragedy that left an eight year old girl and several others dead and a Congresswoman terribly wounded.
One of the “unsung heroes” probably saved the Congresswoman from Continue reading » Being Scared = Learning Opportunity
What scares you – and how do you carry on anyway?
Too often we are scared, scared of what we might not be able to do, scared of what people might think if we tried, and we let those fears stand in the way of our hopes.
— Anonymous
Have you ever found your life zoom-zooming from merely exciting to “Uh Oh”? Have you ever felt like you’ve gone up-side-down? Getting dizzy at the thought? Me too.
Of course, in the photo above the “trickster” is a skilled exhibitionist on the banks of the River Thames’ Festival Pier and he made that jump on Continue reading » Uh Oh
How do you keep your head above water when you feel like you’re drowning?
[Her] resolution is unshaken; tears, though shed, avail not.
— Virgil
In my last few posts I boasted with great élan that, through focused intent and continuing persistence, I would find myself “doing” whatever it is I’m meant to be. But now I find my high-spirited confidence waning – I find myself asking: Did I ever have a successful achieving self? Really and truly?
It seems as though I’m swimming against a riptide of doubt; I’m dog paddling when I meant to Continue reading » Dog Paddle Me Outta This Mood!
Raise yourself up after a fall.
— St. Francis de Sales
I have a friend whose grandson returned from Iraq over a year ago. He had seen some awful things over there, probably more than any of us can even imagine, and he had held his best friend in his arms as he died. Like many of our returning veterans, he tried to keep life the way it had been before he went to Iraq. It just wasn’t possible. After a short period of time, it became obvious that he was struggling with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
After all that we’ve asked of our service people, when they return we expect them to be able to reintegrate into society and be able to manage their lives as if nothing changed. With any injury or illness, if the soldier is conscious, he is expected to Continue reading » An Unpleasant Surprise
We hope you enjoy the Oldies but Goodies we’ll be posting between now and 2011. Happy Holidays!
After having written my last post on replacing fear with good memories, another side-effect of fear occurred to me. When we focus on our fear and we physically spiral into extreme fight or flight, we are fighting two problems in our attempt to move forward. We feel horrible psychologically AND we feel physically horrible. I know I’ve said they feed on one another… and they do. But we need to acknowledge that it’s harder to go out in the world when on top of being scared, you have a sick stomach or worse.
When I finished my first year of training and had customer accounts that were mine, every day was an “adventure.” My territory was spread all over. Because of the traffic, getting to a customer could take 45 minutes to an hour. Prior to getting this job, the farthest I’d driven was to college, which was 45 minutes from home. I had one way to get there and reversed that to get home. (I get lost going around the block. GPS’s were invented to keep me out of places I shouldn’t be in.)
Continue reading » Mickey Mouse to the Rescue
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