Feed
your dreams; starve your fears.

Whichever one you feed will
grow.

Fears will grow to control you and clip your wings.

Dreams will consume you and cause you to soar.

It is your choice.

You will feed that to which you give the most attention and credit.

If you live by fear, you will live a crippled and limited life. Your best work,
your highest aspirations, and your most enchanting creations will go to the
grave with you.

If you live as a person of vision, you may not attain all of your goals, but
you will attain many and they will live on after you are gone. They will
inspire others to dream and create. You will create a ripple that will grow
into a mighty tidal wave of dreams and accomplishments.

Feed your dreams and starve your fears. That is my recommendation and below are
some ideas for how to feed dreams and starve fears.

FEED Your Dreams

F = Face them. I mean, put a
face on them. Find something that represents them that you can gaze upon and be
reminded of them.

E = Enliven them. Create
activities that remind you of your dreams, move you closer toward them, and let
you experience "foretastes" of what it will be like when they come
true.

E – Elicit support. Ask people
who are positive dreamers to be part of your dream building community. Build
them up even as they build you up. Get folks on your team. Someone said that if
you ever see a turtle at the top of a telephone pole and he tells you he got
there by himself he is either lying or he doesn't understand the nature of
things.

D – Determine to pursue
them, work for them, and never let them go. Determination will take you from
today until tomorrow. It is essential.

STARVE Your Fears

S = Saturate yourself with positive words, thoughts, and deeds. Give negativity
no quarter. Make no room for it. Your prior decision to go for the dream has
shut out all possibility of fear finding a resting place in your life. You are
just too occupied with where you are going.

T – Time them. Go ahead and nod at your fears. Stare them down. Look at them
for 30 seconds, a minute, whatever it takes to understand them. When the time
is up, say,  "Time's up. That's all
I can give you." Then walk away. If there was something valid about the
fear, you took time to see it and make provisions. The rest is fruitless.

A – Attack your challenges as one who has the upper hand. Be the aggressor with
your fears. Be proactive. Get fear on the run by taking charge of the
situations that feed it.

R – Rest in God's promises. He has not given us the spirit of fear. He alone is
worthy of our reverence and fear (awe). Reverence Him and let Him take care of
all the other fears.

V – Value what is valuable. Your dreams are built upon principles you value. Your
fears are largely irrational and based upon a concern that you will be severed
from something temporal and fleeting. Focus on what endures and has infinite
value. It will starve fear because it will take away all of its "junk
food" nourishment.

E = Eliminate that which makes you fearful. I don't know what it is in your
life, but there is something that feeds your fears. Identify it and eliminate
it.

That is your assignment today!

I've posted this before, but I needed to read it and heed it again.