Fearless Friday
So many of my decision in my life were based on fear. Fear of rejection, fear that something will happen if I do/don’t, fear that the years are slipping past me and I am powerless to stop it.
My fear didn’t stop when I became a mother. No, it intensified.
What if something happened to the babies? \What if I can’t take care of them alone? What if I am a failure to them?
The fear loomed over me, leaving me powerless.
I couldn’t live like that anymore, I wouldn’t.
I decided to my life back from the fear and just live it. So, when I received and email asking for women to write about becoming fearless to celebrate Arianna Huffington’s new book, On Becoming Fearless: …in Love, Work, and Life , I knew I had to participate.
In the book, Ms. Huffington talks about how women have to become fearless to take their rightful place in society. She explores how you can become fearless with your career, health, parenting, aging and with money.
She writes about how we have to stop complaining about our physical ailments and take care of ourselves and our bodies. Also how women in abusive relationships have to overcome the fear of being alone, and move on.
Some women come into these mind sets later in life, when they realize how silly botox is, or how worrying about the “what ifs” in life are pointless. We all know as women, as mothers, we critisice ourselves and can let ourselves become overly fearful. It is easy to do.
I am not going to wait until I am in my 50’s to have fearlessness, I am going to live in the sunshine instead of the shadows, I am not going to make my children as fearful as I was growing up. I will not let the “what ifs” shape my decisions anymore.
Now if all the women in the world could read this book and make the change to live fearless?
Well, we could rule the world.
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April 27th, 2007 at 10:16 am
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April 29th, 2007 at 1:16 pm
I am so glad to have found your site and this post. I have been looking for a good book to read while doing my daily cardio. Something NOT parenting; something just for me. I think I have found it! Yay! Thanks!