Vision and Fear 10
GOOD MORNING and welcome to Leading Right. I am Abiodun Fijabi.
Fear, in order to gain ascendancy over your life, cuts you off from the positive side of your history. It seeks to disconnect you from your past victories. It capitalizes on your past shortcomings, magnifies them out of proportion and makes you believe there is nothing to celebrate about you. Because fear recognizes if you can connect with past success, you might create an upset for its tyrannical reign.
Each of us must strive to develop what I call a Victory Bank in order to overcome the scourge of fear before it destroys our vision. In this bank, the deposits are the past victories against our fears. The last time you stood up to your fear and moved along the path of your vision, you made a deposit in the bank. This deposit becomes your reference from which you can draw support in your quest to contend your next fear. If you are constantly dodging your fear and running away from a confrontation, you make no deposit and you have no reference to draw from. The larger your deposit base, the more the references you have to help you build confidence to win the next confrontation against your fear.
Now, these deposits or references do not win the war against fear. Past successes only embolden us to take on the next challenge. It is our ability to draw from these references inspiration, confidence, hope and boldness that guarantees us victory.
This is what David did. He connected to his Victory Bank and cashed inspiration and confidence to win the fight against Goliath.
To the suggestion by King Saul that he was just a boy and could not possibly fight Goliath, David responded with a rare confidence, drawing from his Victory Bank.
"I've been a shepherd, tending sheep for my father. Whenever a lion or bear came and took a lamb from the flock, I'd go after it, knock it down, and rescue the lamb. If it turned on me, I'd grab it by the throat, wring its neck, and kill it. Lion or bear, it made no difference--I killed it.”
Visionary people are concerned about the level of deposits in their Victory Bank. They are constantly amassing victories and developing a support base for their confidence against the next challenge. You need to do the same if you want to win against the tyrant and despot called fear.
Fear, in order to gain ascendancy over your life, cuts you off from the positive side of your history. It seeks to disconnect you from your past victories. It capitalizes on your past shortcomings, magnifies them out of proportion and makes you believe there is nothing to celebrate about you. Because fear recognizes if you can connect with past success, you might create an upset for its tyrannical reign.
Each of us must strive to develop what I call a Victory Bank in order to overcome the scourge of fear before it destroys our vision. In this bank, the deposits are the past victories against our fears. The last time you stood up to your fear and moved along the path of your vision, you made a deposit in the bank. This deposit becomes your reference from which you can draw support in your quest to contend your next fear. If you are constantly dodging your fear and running away from a confrontation, you make no deposit and you have no reference to draw from. The larger your deposit base, the more the references you have to help you build confidence to win the next confrontation against your fear.
Now, these deposits or references do not win the war against fear. Past successes only embolden us to take on the next challenge. It is our ability to draw from these references inspiration, confidence, hope and boldness that guarantees us victory.
This is what David did. He connected to his Victory Bank and cashed inspiration and confidence to win the fight against Goliath.
To the suggestion by King Saul that he was just a boy and could not possibly fight Goliath, David responded with a rare confidence, drawing from his Victory Bank.
"I've been a shepherd, tending sheep for my father. Whenever a lion or bear came and took a lamb from the flock, I'd go after it, knock it down, and rescue the lamb. If it turned on me, I'd grab it by the throat, wring its neck, and kill it. Lion or bear, it made no difference--I killed it.”
Visionary people are concerned about the level of deposits in their Victory Bank. They are constantly amassing victories and developing a support base for their confidence against the next challenge. You need to do the same if you want to win against the tyrant and despot called fear.
posted by Abiodun Fijabi at 9:16 PM
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