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Mahler’s Monday Morning Motivator # 88 – Frightening Things

Good morning, guys.
A very scary “All Hallows Eve” to all of you ghouls and goblins. When Halloween rolls around each year, we are inundated with horror movies old and new, tales of terror and all the familiar things that, since childhood, have sent chills up and down our spines, whether real or just for fun. There are some other pretty scary things that frighten us and seem to hang around all year long and these are the subjects of today’s motivator.

It’s amazing how we can be in charge and take control in so many areas of our lives and yet still be plagued by lingering fears that just seem to override all common sense. It may be fear of change, fear of trying something new, perhaps fear of forging new relationships. Oh, we have other names for such fears, to be sure. We say we are just being cautious or that we are satisfied with the tried and true or that we are just not ready for something else. But, hidden, as beneath the surface of a deep pool are the lingering thoughts that we might not like our decisions or the changes we have made. Taking refuge in the backwater of our stream of consciousness are the fears that we may fail or that we might be rejected. These can be powerful fears and all the more so because we rationalize them and allow them to be the bottom dwellers in the ebb and flow of our day- to-day lives. Well it’s time to flush them out and bring them to the surface.

Whatever it might be that is your frightening thing needs to be dredged up into the light of day. After all, someday you may look behind you at that long line of steps that show no sign of leaving the path. You may view the solid, well worn trail of a life unchanged. Or you may see stalking behind you, in the shadows, the friendships that were never forged or that you casually tossed aside. It is then that you will face the most frightening feeling of all; regret.

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Have a great week.

In Fitness & Friendship,
Mahler