I completely agree on the importance of cultivating strong faith in the face of self-doubt and fear. However, I don’t entirely agree with the action part. Sometimes action is appropriate. Sometimes inaction is the best course.

While action is a vital piece of life, I consider it the LAST step in facing down fear.

I would never take an action while feeling fear, worry, anger, or depression. These feeling indicate that you have a lot of passion and energy around a certain topic, but you’re not looking at it from an abundant, open-hearted perspective. Your mind has the steering wheel and is in control giving any actions taken less chance of success.

However, when you change your perspective into a more abundant, heart-centered one — and you know this by how much better you feel when you focus in that direction — then EVERY action works easily and effortlessly. And best of all, the taking of every action FEELS GREAT and not a strain or effort!

I call this inspired action.

I know this is a novel concept. given all the years of the many gurus advising us to act inspite of fear, to “feel the fear and do it anyways”, push through, etc.

But I see/hear NO ONE questioning why so many people still don’t succeed using this “action first” paradigm. Then again, most gurus don’t teach people what fear really means and how to realign themselves so that every action can be inspired.

Thanks for the insight and inspiration — and chance to offer just one alternate perspective in the Universe.

~ Greg