Overcoming Fear: Facing Fear with Facts, Focus and Action

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, American president

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded,
but the fear of pain or death.
Epictetus

Nothing is terrible except fear itself.
Francis Bacon

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People often use the wrong way to deal with

• Avoiding
 this never really makes it go away; we either become paralyzed or defeated.

• Frantically searching for a quick fix
 this usually just results in unfocused and wasted effort.


Inaction breeds doubt and fear.
Action breeds confidence and courage.
If you want to conquer fear,
do not sit home and think about it.
Go out and get busy.
Dale Carnegie


• Most fear is not based on fact
 Much of what we fear is based on a feeling

• Release yourself from fear
 Acknowledge that the majority of fear is
unfounded

Fear and worry are interest paid in advance
on something you may never own.
Ancient saying

• Biggest misconception
 Courage = lack of fear?

• By admitting our fear
 we can then challenge its accuracy.

Courage is resistance to fear,
mastery of fear; not absence of
fear.
Mark Twain

• To do anything of value,
we have to take risks.
 With risk comes fear.

• Accept it as the price of progress
 Then take appropriate risks that yield great
reward.


• Focus on our reason for
confronting fear
 Is it bigger than the fear?
 The firefighter runs into the burning
building not because he’s fearless,
but because he has a missionthat is
more important than the fear.


• Accept the facts that there are
many things we can’t control.
 This allows us to focus on what we can control.

• John C. Maxwell:
 I can control my attitude, but not others’ actions.
 I can control my calendar, but not others’
circumstances.
 It’s not what happens to me, but what happens
in me.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere
with what you can do.
John Wooden, American basketball coach

• To be courageous, you
have to focus only on
today.
 Because it’s the only thing you
have any control over.
 Fear tries to make us look at all of our
problems at once: those from
yesterday, today, and tomorrow.


• Fear tends to breed more fear,
courage leads to more courage.
 The more we face our fears, the more capable
we begin to feel, and the more fears we are
willing to face.

You gain strength, courage and confidence
by every experience in which you really
stop to look fear in the face.
Eleanor Roosevelt

• No amount of thinking
can overcome the fear.
 In fact, the more we think in those
situations, the more fearful we
become.

• The only solution is
action.

When thinking won’t cure fear,
action will.
W. Clement Stone

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