Move Through Your Fear

What inhibits you from moving forward? When you identify a goal and take actions to achieve it, you open yourself to the possibility of risk--getting or not getting what you desire, as well as the consequences of that result. It's frightening to step outside your comfort zone, which is what you are doing when you take a risk. You'll likely be afraid, but that doesn't have to stop you from taking action.

As Susan Jeffers, author of Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway says, "As long as I continued to push out into the world, as long as I continued to stretch my capabilities, as long as I continued to take new risks in making my dreams come true, I was going to experience fear."

The bottom line is--you can take a calculated risk and move though your fear.

Adapted from Smart Women Take Risks, by Helene Lerner. McGraw-Hill.