For a long time, I thought the only way to deal with fear was to muscle through it, to somehow beat it into submission. The end goal being fear's permanent exit, I would emerge victorious, free to move on and succeed. I'm not sure where I picked this up. Probably, like we pick up other beliefs, in bits and pieces growing up, from people we're around, the idols we admire, the media we consume. Of course, the other part is our personality, and what we naturally lean toward. Recently, though, … [Read more...]