Adjust your attitude toward FEAR

I have heard it said that fear is false evidence appearing real. What that means
is that you have allowed your thoughts to imagine something that may or may
not happen. We all have felt fear but just like any other emotion, we can choose
to not allow fear to control our lives. Yes, fear might be in the car with you
(hopefully in the back seat) but it does not have to be driving you. When I was
about to start my daycare center 26 years ago, I had no experience, no degree in
early childhood education no experience in owning or operating a school and to
top it off the person who would grant me a license to own a childcare looked at
me and said; “you can’t do this I had three schools they all failed what makes you
think you can be successful?” What made me think I could, was ME. I am the
one writing this story, I am the master of my fate. This is your life and someone’s
opinion of what they think you can or cannot do is not your business. You are
responsible for controlling the narrative. What is happening in the world is less
important than how you are responding to it. Our children, our family members,
our employees are watching how we lead not in times of plenty but in times of
lack.
Your children will not remember the newspaper articles, MSNBC or news
conferences, what they will remember is how you (their leader responded during
the conflicts of life. How will you respond? Will you allow fear to paralyze you?
or will you allow fear to fuel you? God does not give us the spirit of fear but of
power, and love and a sound mind (II Timothy 1:7). A sound mind that uses
wisdom and understanding and remains calm even when the storms of life are
raging. Why? because we as leaders must be anchored in faith. Faith that knows
without the rain there can be no rainbow, faith that knows above the valley there
is victory, on the other side of the mountain there is a miracle, through the trial
there will be a testimony. What keeps fear from controlling my life is that I don’t
want to get to the end of my life and have to say I would have ....I should have
but I didn’t. So I fear nothing but a mediocre life, I fear nothing but an
UNFULFILLED PURPOSE!
Until next time, Be A Light
Dr. Deborah