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Face Your Fears

By Dr. Robert Schuller
Strip away the masks, burn the costumes, tear down the facades, discover the real, root emotion. Behind the excuses, laziness, practicality, realism, and other guises of negative thinking is-fear.
People are negative because they are afraid. They are afraid of being disappointed. Call it the fear of dashed hopes. Call it the fear of having your dreams turn to ashes. Call it the fear of failure.
"I don't want to be disappointed. So I don't think I'll try." That's negative thinking. That's fearful thinking.
Now if you could learn how to deal with disappointments, if you could learn to lose without being defeated, would you dare to think positively?
If you will learn how to be disappointed without being discouraged, you need never be defeated. You'll never experience final failure. You will set higher goals. You will try again. When you realize that the worst that can happen is that you may have to face a disappointment, then you will be transformed from a doubter to a believer, from a negative thinker to a positive thinker.