Okay, so some of you are thinking, what's big deal about driving 5 hours? For me driving 5 hours by myself was a very BIG DEAL. I rarely do road trips alone, and when I do they are generally short trips, less than 2 hours. Add to that fact that I had never been to Youngstown before so it would be a long unfamiliar drive. I was scared. What if I got lost? What if I fell asleep? What if I went crazy talking to myself for 300 miles?

As you can tell by fact that I'm writing this, I made it to Youngstown and back safely. The trip taught me a few lessons about tackling fear.

1. Educate yourself. Prior to my trip, I studied directions to get there. I wrote instructions in big bold print on a 3 x 5 note card for quick reference while I was driving. The biggest thing most people fear is unknown. By educating yourself about activity that you fear, you can take out a large chunk of unknown.

This is a serious question that you need to ask yourself. You can't get to where you're going if you don't know where you've been. You need to appreciate what you have now in order to be able to receive more.

You want more money to flow into your life but are you grateful for what you have now? True it may not be as much as you would like to have but doesn't it pay bills now? And if not all of bills, doesn't that money help in some way?

Instead of looking at negative aspects of life - turn them around and find positive part. Just like a battery, everything in life has a positive and a negative side.

Your outlook on a potentially negative situation can alter your future. By focusing on negative parts, say you have an older car in need of minor repairs, you're causing more negativity to fall into play. Like attracts like. So more you focus on bad things - your car isn't running perfectly - more bad things are going to happen.