I heard the following poem once, I don’t know who wrote it, but I thought it was pretty incredible.

To laugh is to risk appearing the fool.

To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.

To reach out to others is to risk getting involved.

To show your feelings is to risk exposing your self.

To place your ideas, your dreams, before the crowd is to risk their loss.

To love is to risk not being loved in return.

To hope is to risk pain.

To try is to risk failure.

But risks must be taken; it absolutely must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

The person who risks nothing does nothing, and has nothing.

You may avoid suffering and sorrow but you simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow, live or love chained by your certitudes. You will be a slave.

Only the person who risks is free.

Have you set goals in the past, but the fear inside stops you and you back away? Sure! We all have experienced that.

We are “natural born risk takers.” Our problem is that we have many shackles that we pick up along the way. Fear holds us back from literally living our dreams. And that’s the only kind of life that we want to be involved in.

Let’s choose to live the way we really want inside. Abraham Maslow pointed out “you’ll either step forward into growth or step back into safety.” There’s no compensation in playing it safe. That safety could be a prison.

Understand that fear is holding you back. UNDERSTANDING and COURAGE is going to enable you to break through that barrier.

By STUDYING you gain an understanding and the understanding tells us “QUIT LETTING YOUR OUTSIDE WORLD CONTROL YOUR THINKING. DON’T LET PREVIOUS OR PRESENT RESULTS CONTROL YOUR THINKING.”

Visualize what you want, get emotionally involved with what you want. The understanding leads to FAITH and the FAITH will manifest on a physical plane with what you want.

If you have not watched the movie The Secret, I encourage you to get the DVD today and/or the book. You can also get it at Books A Million or Barnes & Noble.

The Secret doesn’t have all the answers – but it is a start.

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