Hello and welcome back to my blog.

FEAR is an acronym for several different things. False Evidence Appearing Real, Forget Everything And Run or Face Everything And Rise.

For writing this can show up in not publishing something you’ve been working on for months or years or perhaps not even getting into writing at all.

Why does this happen? Perhaps we might listen to the opinions of others who tell us we can’t do it. In my own life I can think of at least one instance where this happened. When graduating high school years ago I had thought about being a police officer – I listened to what others were saying in that they weren’t hiring white males at the time. Now I don’t want you to think this is a rant against affirmative action, it’s not. The pendulum for decades swung in the favor of white males, it’s only fair that it swung back the other way to advantage women and others – Blacks, Asians, etc.

But I probably could have gotten into the police force, if I had gone for it.

Sometimes it might be a lack of confidence in ourselves. I remember reading a story about an older man saying to a child “there are two wolves inside me. One is nice the other is mean and nasty.”

The child asks, “Which one wins?”

The older man says, “The one I feed the most.”

It is actually a Cherokee legend and you can read the full story here.

But let’s think for a moment, could the same thing apply to what you fear? Perhaps those two wolves will say different things at different times. The good wolf will say to you “yes you can do it, you can be an author or insert anything in here that you would like to be.

The evil wolf will say, “you fool, you can’t do anything, what makes you think you could ever do this?”

So which wolf will you feed?