Fear Skittles? Fear NOTHING. There Is Always Hope.

Fear actually works against motivation. It’s the most powerful antidote to the courage required to change.

Fear of death is nothing. Fear of Skittles is actually not that big a deal either. It’s fear of SELF and all the uncomfortable things that slither below the surface that have the greatest impact.

Motivation won’t grow in soil poisoned with fear.

As an example, there was a woman on Oprah the other day. It was one of those shows about people who accumulate stuff in order to compensate for something missing in their lives. It’s not like the subject matter itself was anything new, but this one woman in particular really touched me. Her husband died in 1997 while on a fishing outing with their kids. He drown saving one of their children. This woman spent the next 12 years covering herself up, fearing what she might see in the mirror: a woman in pain, alone with five children, and a widow. That’s an awful lot to have to look at each day. She might as well have covered every mirror in her home with a sheet. Living that life…there was no room for motivation.

But everything changes in some way. She has begun to pull those sheets off of her mirrors. She is taking back her life, reconnecting with her two sons who still live at home, and coming to the realization that all the stuff has buried her just as surely as she buried her husband 12 years ago. Fear may still be there, but it’s not all there is any more. That’s where motivation gains a foothold. How? It’s called “hope.”

Where there is hope, motivation will follow. Fear will subside.

Fear Skittles? Fear NOTHING. There is always hope.