Welcome to another half-size-mey audio blog. This blog is number six, and it is titled, Overcoming Your Fears and Becoming

Your Fears and Becoming Stronger.

Hello, and welcome to another half-size-me audio blog. I am your host, Heather, and today's audio blog is titled Your Guide to Overcoming Your Fears.

Everyone has a fear of something. Humans avoid pain and failure at all costs, and that is a problem. We need to face our fears in order to move in a new direction.

If you never see fear as being something you can move past to get stronger, then you are

doomed to live a life the same way forever. Although, I believe, we either choose to face our fears

and create change ourselves, or it is pushed on us by life. Either way, things

never truly do stay the same. You need to start seeing yourself as in charge of your own life.

Facing your fears is the number one way to do it. When you are hiding all the time, it may seem

falsely safe. But what are you saving yourself from? What is it that you're

truly scared of? Believe it or not, I think our true fear is not of seeming incapable or the

embarrassment, because that is temporary. But our real fear is rather, if I am successful at this,

then what am I truly capable of? Every fear you

prove to yourself as false, you become stronger. What is left after you conquer all your fears?

What could you do that you would never have imagined possible? We fear what we could become,

not what we are. You have probably heard this quote from Marianne Williams. Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?

Actually, who are you not to be? I think sometimes we see the gorgeous and brilliant and talented

people as being somebody other than us. But what if you see that in yourself? Then you are not the

norm. Instead, you would stand out. People that are not

the norm are seen as an outlier. And what is an outlier? This would be a math definition.

An outlier defined by the free dictionary.com is one whose domicile lies at an appreciable distance

from his or her place of business,

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