Rewired for the Journey

  The greatest blockade to human achievement is internal fear. Some of the best in the field of sports, music, business, and you fill in the blank were never known to be the best because they let fear of failure from ever letting them be known as truly the best in their perspective field. This is very sad for them and for us to never get to watch them play or read the book that they could never get up the nerve to write. Some people get so anxiety-ridden that they turn to drugs or alcohol or something else to numb them from thinking about achieving.  One of my fears was looking incompetent. In trying to not look incompetent I worked twice as hard as everyone else out of fear and there was pride in my work also but mainly a quiet fear. I sometimes wonder if I could have achieved more in my life without the haunting fear of failure but the truth is there are other complex scenarios in a person's life that can at times dictate the path of their life that simply is out of their control

  Sometimes being in silence is a beautiful cleansing experience. But being silent too long can begin to make one become a blank sheet and you can begin to get writers' block. I found myself writing and speaking for years and then right before the Pandemic of 2020 I was not writing and speaking as prolifically as I once was which became disturbing and frustrating. I got to the point that I believed it had all been said before. There is nothing new to be said. I so wanted to come up with something brilliant to say that had never been said before. I was haunted by the Bible verses from  Ecclesiastes 1:8-11 which read, 8. All words are worrisome; more than one can express; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. 9. What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. 10. Is there anything of which one can say, "Look! This is something new?" It was here already, long ago; it was here before our