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Fearcast

“Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.”- William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

I have always loved this line.  It plays off of extremes.  Most of us would not classify our selves as a coward or as a valiant person.  And that is where the problem can be found.

Because we are not at the extreme then our behavior tends to be unpredictable.  We do not fear everything or we do not fear anything.  We fear some things.  Some things is very hard to predict.

So what does our mind do to compensate for fears?  The mind tries to forecast the future.  Unfortunately, because the future is uncertain it uses fear as a part of its forecast.  In other words,

                                Forecast=Fearcast

Even though we so not fear everything, some of the things we fear get enlarged and become the fearcast of our future.  So how do we stop?  We must take each one of our fears, taste it, chip at it, whittle  it down until it has no power over us.  Then move on to your next fear.

Today’s question is:

“Are your forecasts mostly fearcasts?”