fear – Page 3 – On Life, Hope y todo lo demás…

Worry makes you sick and wastes your life away.

But how to stop worrying? Well, once you are hit hard by one of the above you begin to realize that worry usually takes you nowhere and only paralyzes you. The way out is to take the steps to do the best you can to your knowledge and stop trying to control outcomes. The only […]

by Laura Basset Carbonell

Is it too late?

Even in my twenties I thought it was too late for me to start something new. And so it’s been until recently. I suppose age has a lot to do with it. Now that I am deep into my 40’s, I have come to feel that I have much less to lose. All those what […]

by Laura Basset Carbonell

Do that which you think you can’t do.

We develop courage as we age but often we allow our fear of failure to override what we really would love to do. If we honestly answer the question: What is stopping you? I’m sure you can come up with a million excuses, just like myself. Most of the time we are the ones who set […]

by Laura Basset Carbonell

A time to be brave.

Sometimes we are too afraid to take that leap, to make that decision we well know will change the course of our lives. We can keep postponing and waiting for the right time, but all too often, time just drags on and we eventually do nothing and end up in the same place for years, if […]

by Laura Basset Carbonell

Second chances.

Life does offer us second and third chances. The problem is that we’re often too afraid or too comfortable in the known territory to take the leap. New chances to start over, change course, come up everyday and we are the only ones who get in the way, in our own way.

by Laura Basset Carbonell

The ebb and flow.

Life is just like the ebb and flow of waters on a shore. It brings us things, takes them away and brings more back. It all comes and goes. Once we realize this, we become less fearful and more courageous.

by Laura Basset Carbonell

The fear of letting go.

The attachments we form throughout our lives are hard to sever. Some we must keep, some we must let go of, but try as we might we can’t, at least emotionally. Letting go of someone is loss, and loss is one of the most difficult tasks our brain doesn’t seem very well equipped to handle.

by Laura Basset Carbonell

Change: the dread of the unknown.

We like our routines, they ground us, as boring as they might become at some point. They keep our lives neatly balanced. We know what to expect, we know the territory. Suddenly change springs and throws us off kilter. Some of us dread change because of the unknown territory and feel disoriented when our neat […]

by Laura Basset Carbonell

A safe place to hide.

Whenever fear or disappointment strikes, some of us only want to find a safe place to hide. Unfortunately we can’t hide from ourselves; wherever we go, there we are.

by Laura Basset Carbonell

Is it too late?

I always thought it was too late or too “you name it.” In reality, as I’ve come to understand a bit late again, those “too…” were mere excuses to get out of doing something out of fear of failure or disappointment.