Fear is a precursor to Courage.

Fear is a necessary precursor to Courage.

Without Fear we could have no Courage.

We know there is an abundance of Fear. We know Fear is capable of lurking at every corner.

Fear is like a wild, untamed, insatiable beast.

Courage – sometimes conscious, sometimes subconscious, and certainly always having strong subconscious roots – is the only trainer able to handle Fear.

We can choose to view Fear as a catalyst for Courage.

We can choose to view Fear as a thing life offers us to enable us to have and build Courage. We can choose to view Fear as a signal, alerting us to do some thinking and take some action to build Courage.

When we choose to view Fear that way, we choose to use Fear as a catalyst to build Courage. We choose to put Fear to constructive use…as our bodies naturally, subconsciously, do when we face real danger.  Put another way, we can choose to mirror the processes of Nature that automatically provide us with fight or flight reactions. Fight or flight fits certain high-risk-of-real-danger Fear-situations. Fight or flight doesn’t fit most everyday Fear-situations. Fight or flight doesn’t fit most workday Fear-situations.

For most workday Fear-situations Courage is a better solution than fight or flight.

So, when Fears visit us during the workday we should not allow them to cause us to do battle [in our heads or externally] and we should not try to ignore them or shrink away from them. Instead, we should use Fears as catalysts for building Courage.

When we use Fears as catalysts for building Courage we enable Courage to drive Confidence. Confidence, molded by Courage, is that comfortable state of mind that is resistant to and resilient in even the most difficult Situations.

Confidence: that's a state of mind we should want to maximize.