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I haven’t done one of these in a while, so when I heard this quote again on the radio yesterday, I immediately though of you.

“One of the major reasons so many of us remain hurried, frightened, and competitive, and continue to live life as if it were one giant emergency, is our fear that if we were to become more peaceful and loving, we would suddenly stop achieving our goals. We would become lazy and apathetic.

You can put this fear to rest by realizing that the opposite is actually true. Fearful, frantic thinking takes an enormous amount of energy and drains the creativity and motivation from our lives. When you are fearful or frantic, you literally immobilize yourself from your greatest potential, not to mention enjoyment. Any success that you do have is despite your fear, not because of it.”

~ Richard Carlson, Ph.D

How does that make you feel right now? Think about where you are in your life and work this weekend, and consider this:

What would you do if you knew you could not fail?

And what is one step that you can take today to get closer to that goal?

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