Comments on: Why Fear Is Good

By: CathD

CathD — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 13:41:26 +0000

great post, Johnny

Having been afraid of fear for most of my life, I’ve started to really “get” how useful fear is. My post about “4 reasons why fear is a friend” on lifedev.net gives a few more ideas on why fear is so useful:
http://lifedev.net/2009/02/four-reasons-why-fear-is-a-creatives-friend/

So having made friends with my fear, I’ve been facing more of my fears, and recently I decided to face up to a BIG, irrational fear I’ve had for over 10 years:

http://www.mineyourresources.com/2009/02/my-big-irrational-fear/

CathDs last blog post..My Big, Irrational Fear…

By: Cath Lawson

Cath Lawson — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:50:25 +0000

Hi Johnnie – I’m not surprised that you hated that job. I hate fruit flies – they break into my house, steal my wine -then the little buggers drown in it. And it takes a long time to pick a couple of dozen fruit flies out of a bottle of wine.

I’ve had a few sucky things happen to me in the past and there were times when I was really scared. But I can see how that fear was necessary to make improvements in my life.

Cath Lawsons last blog post..Sleazy Sales & Why Your Neighbours Make You Poor

By: Laurie

Laurie — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:46:17 +0000

Good points here. I have often thought that when the fear of staying where we are exceeds the fear of change, we’ll get up and move. Sometimes good things motivate us but I would dare to guess it is often the fear of bad things that get us off our butts!

By: Johnny Truant

Johnny Truant — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:08:09 +0000

Haha, literally a handful of people. That’s pricelss.

On a side note, I start way too many sentences with “haha.” Pretty soon I’ll start using LOL a lot and saying “prolly.”

Johnny Truants last blog post..WAAAAAAAAASAAAAAAAP?!

By: Tim Brownson

Tim Brownson — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:04:53 +0000

Thanks to all you guy for making Johnny welcome. I think a bit more abuse would have been nice, but we can’t have everything we want in life.

I do begrudgingly want to thank him for such a fine article and outshining me on my own bloody blog! I’ll be inviting him round for dinner at some stage so he can meet my wife and help her realize she picked the wrong guy.

BTW, if YOU like to write and I know many of you do and if you can match this quality and would like to get your name in front of literally a handful of people I’d love to hear from you.

Apologies to those of you whose links aren’t working. I’m having some technical difficulties not least of which is I haven’t got a friggin clue what I’m doing.

By: joyce lukaczer

joyce lukaczer — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:13:51 +0000

hmmmmm, you don’t suppose this here Introspective Hilarity could be the result of some freakish chemical imbalance in-duced by heavy metal poisoning? [cogitate on it abit, the WRENCH dude! the WRENCH!]

just thinkin’ …

By: Alex Fayle | Someday Syndrome

Alex Fayle | Someday Syndrome — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:01:26 +0000

I’ve learned to test the fear and if it’s just me being all “ooh, new, hard work, scary, don’t go there” then I head straight in that direction.

So yeah, fear is really useful because I use it as a series of roadsigns.

By: Tiffany

Tiffany — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 06:02:11 +0000

Thank you so much for posting this! It is so well said!

I am currently about to walk away from a job that I don’t really mind so much. It’s fine — good people, good work, but there’s no sizzle. So, I’m walking away and demanding more for myself. And when people say, “how could you do that?” I know that I have to — because to stay would be to make my decision based on fear. A fear of the unknown, of what would happen if I left. And that’s not how I want to live my life.

By: Hilary

Hilary — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 04:31:31 +0000

Ah ha ha! I know all about the whole fruit fly malarky on account of I used to be married to a geneticist who had to get up in the middle of the night to go and collect virgins, poor love. Strangely, he liked the career so what does that make him??

Love the post. I could write one on why fibromyalgia is good – oh, hang on, I already did! It had the same effect on me, stopped me doing what I didn’t want to do and got me finding other options.

By: Shannon

Shannon — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 04:04:21 +0000

The part where the fear is saying “move along, this stage has served it’s purpose” hit me like a ton of bricks. That’s exactly where I have been for a while now – grieving, fearing, then making excuses that I’m healing. I’ve only been sitting in fear. In this week alone I have seen and learned so many things that actually motivate me to “move along” that I can hardly wait to get there. I saw something today that gave me the “THIS is what you want to do” thought. I haven’t had one so OUT LOUD before. Then I read this post. Right when it felt like “finally, someone said it”. It’s time to move along.

Thanks Johnny and thanks Tim.