Rule 6: You Get To Choose Your Response To Fear

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Rule 6: You Get To Choose Your Response To Fear — Unhealthy Responses

By LBaucom on Friday, January 23rd, 2009 | No Comments

We have established that fear is a given. We cannot get rid of it. We can only decide whether or not fear will run our lives. And we can decide how we will respond. But what if you find yourself constantly in the grips of fear? There are two basic approachs to life that are [...]

Rule 5: We All Have Some Basic Fears

By LBaucom on Monday, January 19th, 2009 | No Comments

We share fear with every living creature. The difference is that we are able to add emotion and thought to the feelings. Sure, some animals are capable of emotions –anger in particular. But as far as we know, no other animal reflects on their fears. Because we are thinking creatures, we take a fear and [...]

Quotes About Fear

By LBaucom on Thursday, January 15th, 2009 | No Comments

Quotes on Dealing With Fear: A ship in harbor is safe — but that is not what ships are for. –John A. Shedd Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear. –Mark Twain Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be [...]

Rule 4: Fear Is A Fact Of Life

By LBaucom on Thursday, January 15th, 2009 | No Comments

Fear is a fact of life. We may as well get used to it. I say that because we all spend an inordinate amount of energy avoiding fear. For what? We still feel it. In fact, very often when we avoid fear, we really only grow that fear. Let me be clear: I am not [...]

Rule 3: Memories Are Just Thoughts

By LBaucom on Monday, January 12th, 2009 | No Comments

OK, this one can be controversial, so hear me out. A memory is merely a thought. It is a thought about something that happened in the past, which we then pull into the present. Some of those thoughts are helpful, but others are not. I am NOT saying that you should ignore painful events from [...]

Rule 2: Recognize a Thought is a Thought

By LBaucom on Friday, January 9th, 2009 | No Comments

The second rule ties directly into the first rule. In fact, it is probably step 1 in watching our mind. What is going on in our mind? Thoughts. What trips us up? Thoughts. The problem is not the thoughts. The problem is that we don’t recognize they are just thoughts. Thoughts are merely constructs of [...]

Rule 1: Watch Your Mind

By LBaucom on Monday, January 5th, 2009 | No Comments

Your mind is one amazing “thing.” In fact, I don’t even know the word to refer to it. Your mind is not a “thing,” yet it is there. You can think, you can even observe yourself thinking! And while many have reduced your mind to some aspect of your brain’s function, science still struggles with [...]

The Rules: A Starting Point

By LBaucom on Sunday, January 4th, 2009 | No Comments

OK, so let’s set some parameters for these 99 rules of thriving. You see, these rules are not pulled out of thin air. They come from my frame for what I understand are the elements of a thriving life. As I have studied this, four areas of concern emerge in the pursuit of a thriving [...]

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