-- "Paralysis by analysis". Our fear often produces an overwhelming need to "figure it all out", to get all of our "ducks in a row". Don't misunderstand me here, I'm not suggesting that there's something wrong with planning and weighing options. However, there's a vast different between strategic planning and in trying to work out every conceivable scenario that may occur. The former is followed by strategic action. The latter is followed by more analysis and ultimately, inaction, meaning," We're 'stuck'."

-- Hopelessness. The ultimate enemy that fear can produce in us is hopelessness. It is felling that says, "There's no use." This is enemy that most often deals fatal blow to our dreams and aspirations. When you have hope, you have power to act. When you are hopeless, you are powerless.

Are you fighting wrong enemy? Stop trying to overcome your fear and look rather to what it may be producing in you. That is real enemy.

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