Do Your Fears Distort Your Reality?
1. “Your fears distort your reality” – He called it the “awfulizer”
• When I applied to Indiana State, I was told by a high school teacher that this school was a horrible choice and that I wouldn’t graduate. Can you imagine how that felt? Well that fear stopped me from taking my ACT again because I was afraid of what would really happen. I constantly told myself that I couldn’t do it. Believe it or not, I actually didn’t go to school second semester of my senior year for two weeks because of that ONE comment, that ONE person’s opinion of me. I had a plan to be great, and her comment truly distorted the vision I had for myself at one moment in time. But instead, I followed my instincts and now look where I’m at…
2. We fear the worse; we tell ourselves what we can and cannot do”
• Continuing with the story above; I told myself that I couldn’t even graduate high school at that point. I know it may sound sort of crazy; but can you imagine a teacher that you looked up to and admired telling you something like that? I told myself that I couldn’t even graduate high school or college because I didn’t feel “smart enough”. My biggest fear at that point in time was not being able to attend college, failing out, and not having the opportunity to relish being successful because I wasn’t as smart as the other students in my …show more content…
Now, I went to a performing arts high school, so I couldn’t be afraid of performing. I never wanted to continue having stage fright, so I forced myself to get on stage and sing during my recital. I confronted my fear because I knew that as a public relations specialist, I would have to speak in front of a large number of individuals. Now to this day, I have performed in front of various groups of people; whether it was during a competition or right here on campus. But who knows, if it wasn’t for me forcing myself to perform that very day, maybe I would still be living with that
• When I applied to Indiana State, I was told by a high school teacher that this school was a horrible choice and that I wouldn’t graduate. Can you imagine how that felt? Well that fear stopped me from taking my ACT again because I was afraid of what would really happen. I constantly told myself that I couldn’t do it. Believe it or not, I actually didn’t go to school second semester of my senior year for two weeks because of that ONE comment, that ONE person’s opinion of me. I had a plan to be great, and her comment truly distorted the vision I had for myself at one moment in time. But instead, I followed my instincts and now look where I’m at…
2. We fear the worse; we tell ourselves what we can and cannot do”
• Continuing with the story above; I told myself that I couldn’t even graduate high school at that point. I know it may sound sort of crazy; but can you imagine a teacher that you looked up to and admired telling you something like that? I told myself that I couldn’t even graduate high school or college because I didn’t feel “smart enough”. My biggest fear at that point in time was not being able to attend college, failing out, and not having the opportunity to relish being successful because I wasn’t as smart as the other students in my …show more content…
Now, I went to a performing arts high school, so I couldn’t be afraid of performing. I never wanted to continue having stage fright, so I forced myself to get on stage and sing during my recital. I confronted my fear because I knew that as a public relations specialist, I would have to speak in front of a large number of individuals. Now to this day, I have performed in front of various groups of people; whether it was during a competition or right here on campus. But who knows, if it wasn’t for me forcing myself to perform that very day, maybe I would still be living with that