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13 Tips to Face Your Fears, Grow with Them and Enjoy the Ride
Grow with your fears
- Take a fear that feels Insurmountable right now.
- Realise that you are not defined by your fear.
- Break the fear down. You'll find lots of little obstacles and develop awareness to the little steps on the road to happiness and success. This will enable you to tackle it in a different way.
- Out of the scariest of moments, we can find great skills we didn’t know we had.
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