Clients and readers often ask me questions about overcoming fear. It may be that they are terrified of auditions. Sometimes, the fear is about getting up in front of an audience. Maybe they’re insecure when meeting and working with others in new surroundings. Perhaps they’re afraid of interviews or improvisation or taking chances. These fears range in degree from merely uncomfortable to absolutely debilitating.
Fear?! Who, me??
Come on and admit it—you feel fear sometimes. I know I do. Fear is a perfectly natural and necessary feeling. Like pain, there’s a reason for it. If you don’t feel pain, you won’t take your hand off a hot stove before it burns up. If you don’t feel fear, you won’t pay close attention to dangerous situations. But are you allowing your fear to become deconstructive instead of constructive?
Let’s say that you are riding in your car with your family and hit a wet spot on a bridge. The car hydroplanes and lurches off the bridge. As you careen toward the stream below, what do you do?
One type of person screams bloody murder. He continues to scream in a panic until the car goes beneath the water into the stream below. All is lost.
The second type
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