You have supporters that you don’t know about: When you are scared, you will be able to shine a light here and look in the mirror and say, “I am vulnerable but I have courage too.” 9. A lot of people live long but boring lives, and they never once come face to face with the gift of vulnerability and the act of courage. You learn about vulnerability and courage:Īnd that’s a good thing. And whenever something scares you and makes you question your self-worth, it’s an opportunity to learn and to grow. The journey to happiness and inner peace, Rumi tells us, happens by going inward. You are discovering too much about yourself to give up: You emerge as a new person, better, stronger, and happier too. You are about to change your life:Įven though I don’t know exactly what you are going through, whatever it is, when you push past fear and insecurities, and find your inner strength, you transform. Lift that heart by putting one foot in front of the other, no matter how scared or insecure you feel.

Your inner voice will nag you and whisper long sad what-if questions in your ear and fill your heart with sorrow. So get this, if you quit, you may not be scared or insecure but you won’t have true peace. Your inner voice will nag you indefinitely if you quit: And I’ll tell you a secret, doing what you and you alone want is a sweet path to instant happiness. If you are scared while doing someone else’s bidding, quit by all means! But if you are pursuing what you want, deep down, then keep going because you deserve to give yourself your all. You know deep down this is what you want: You hope to live a long life, so do I, sure, but the truth is there’s no better time than right now to do what you want to do. This now, this present moment is all you can be certain that you have.

You’ll never find a better time than right now: Right? Don’t give your power away to regret.

Best to avoid that whole mess and not discover at the end of your life that you didn’t really live and fulfill these desires for a little fear and insecurity. If you’ve never regretted something, it’s like the bitter taste of ash in your mouth, and a sulky heavy feeling in your heart. But it also means you are on the right track, you are meant to go down this road, even if you arrived here after a lot of wrong turns.

Of course that scares you! You and everyone else, darling. When you are scared, it’s a sign you are doing the right thing by being outside your comfort zone. 12 Reasons to Keep Going When You Feel Scared and Insecure 1. Ha! You win!Īnd just in case you are feeling scared and insecure right now, I wanted to remind you the things you already know but may need to hear again. They are still there but they lose their hold over you. What happens is you become stronger and readier to handle them. The emotions do not go away – how I wish. I’ve felt them all and I still feel them frequently. And most of all, entertaining the thoughts of doubt and fear. Questioning your self-worth and self-confidence. You experience emotions you didn’t even know you had. You feel almost nothing as you go through your normal routines except perhaps boredom, fatigue, mild resentment and a little growing sarcasm about life in general.Īnd then there is the life of going for what you want, all else be damned.ĭeep down, maybe you weren’t meant to be an employee (first you need to exit that job) – maybe you were meant to be a writer, or a lifeguard, or a quiet encourager for a youth group, or on a mission to save Mountain Gorillas from going into extinction.ĭeep down, you have a beautiful purpose – that’s a fact – and one day, you stand up and decide to honor the darn thing, come what may.Īnd guess what? You then open yourself to a whole new world you never knew before. One is the life of doing what you are already doing, what you have been told and taught to do, and also dreading it, wanting to escape it and wondering if there is more (there is) to your life and your purpose. I want to highly encourage you to go for the first one. You either do what you want in life and deal with all the stuff that gets in your way.

Reasons to keep going