Fear is a powerful thing

Since I first joined Wealthy Affiliate, I was so eager to learn and the great community here is the best asset one could ask for. I mean which program can help you out of your struggle and get an answer to your questions in minutes? I have not found any except here at WA.

Soon as I went through the courses and checklists and came across the word "content" fear started creeping in, 'I have to write about something I like, and publish it to people that don't even know me?' 'what will the people that know me say about what I've written?' I felt like crawling into a shell and hiding myself.

This fear gripped me and I didn't know what to do, do I go forward or do I just back down and look for other ventures. This so called fear is still with me and still propels me to even write this down. I am still learning in this thing called life, how is it that my friends can proceed on with life and travel abroad and I'm left stagnating, I wonder at times.

The same fear I believe is pushing me from behind and want to make myself better by changing my mindset and adapting to change and make something out of myself.

I listen to a wide variety of music, a particular one caught my ear, which was by Dr. Dre, and at the start of the music was a quote by Jimmy Iovine that made me read about his story and his commencement speech at USC. He says, "Fear…fear is a powerful thing. I mean, it’s got a lot of firepower. If you can figure out a way to wrestle that fear to push you from behind rather than stand in front of you, that’s very powerful."

One quote from Reid Hoffman reads " An Entrepreneur is someone who jumps off a cliff and builds a plane on his way down" Well, here I go.......