Can you face challenges, fears and difficulties with fortitude? Can you accept the emotions that come with struggle rather than denying them? Can you feel the anxiety without letting it own you? Can you know your path is in front of you and amazing things are always coming your way?

I sometimes try to bury fears. I want them to go away. Or, I use them to “doom cast,” to construct a completely improbably chain of events that leads to the implosion of my world. It is very hard for me to accept fear without letting it own my thoughts and therefore I’ve often used denial as my approach.

But what’s interesting about fear for me is usually what I fear is what hasn’t happened yet. Once it has happened, I’m usually pretty good at feeling it and moving forward. So perhaps fear is about the path that might be more than the path that is. Rarely is the present so awful that we fear it. We fear the could, the might, the perhaps more than what is.

As you read this I wonder:

* How much of your fear is about tomorrow versus really being about today?

* Can you welcome fear as you would welcome any emotion, knowing, like all of them, it is transitory?

* Can you believe in that good things will come tomorrow even if your fears are somehow realized?

I’m as guilty as anyone of spending too much time looking over the horizon for what might happen. This week, can you keep your sight a bit closer in and experience what is versus waiting for what could be?

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