FEAR IS SUCH A BEE ATCH

NO MATTER OUR SKILL AND EXPERIENCE, at some point we'll find ourselves in an undesirable situation, teetering on the edge of disaster...

... looking for a way forward.

Speed is always the answer.

Could be speed to...

• course correct
• accelerate forward
• jump on the binders

... put simply, change the situation.

I was thinking of that this morning on a rather naughty trail.

Rather than bog down and lose momentum...

... I pressed harder on the pedals to dance across the rocks.

The hard part about that is the first time we're faced with such a situation, we're...

• scared
• locked up
• panic stricken

... mustering the courage to charge forward seems crazy and fraught with peril.

Walking through Fountain Hills AZ today, I sidled up a statue of the great Teddy Roosevelt, and was reminded of a quote...

... In any moment of decision, best thing you can do is the fast (he said right) thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

When I read his autobiography I was so impressed by his willingness to go for it vs playing it safe.

Summed up best in his Man In The Arena...

“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”

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