Fear, Hope, Accountability and a Little Red Walker
Fear appears to be the most common guiding principle of our lives. The media, advertisers, politicians, teachers, our parents use fear to guide us, to subjugate us into action. We rule our lives by the fear of the un-known, the fear of what we think will come next. The fear. My wife reminds me that fear attaches us to the outcome of fear. Attach yourself to fear and what you fear will come. My greatest fear was being 50 and out of work. Welcome to fear. I should fear winning the lottery. I fear winning the $250MM lottery! I fear winning it so badly I can taste it…! OK – so maybe that fear is hope. But hope isn’t a strategy. Hope is attached to a plan that we work toward and strive to achieve in our lives. Hope is what you have when you’ve decided to enact a change and have a plan to reach an objective. You can hope your plan succeeds but you still need to drive the process to make sure it’s obtained. I discontinued using th