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What Data Can Do To Inform Fear
Identifying the Situation & Looking At It With Clear Information
If you live in a heightened state of fear long enough you begin to learn its darkness and it learns how to manipulate your mind. I look at an email that says we have to be out December 1st. I look at my husband and begin to complain because I know for a fact our lease doesn’t end until the end of January. I start to complain about the landlord and send a email asking why we would have to be out so much earlier than our lease states. A few hours later I get myself in a calmer state about everything and re-read the original email. It says let us know by December 1st if you will be moving out at the end of your lease. We want to know so we can have time to advertise. I send an apology email because of my oversight and tell her we will let them know.
Author Jon Acuff tells readers that fear does not take work. I agree wholeheartedly. If I could transition fear to drive, I would achieve an unlimited number of goals. Fear blinds the mind from accurate details that could be used to look at a situation realistically and judge it as being harmful or not. Fear causes panic and shuts down our ability to think. In a state of panic, we operate in survival mode which results in living a minimal life. When we are in survival mode we can’t see past the moment and are unable…
