After a nice weekend or holidays, fears can sneak into your consciousness, and you find yourself thinking and feeling you are back in a rut. "I am where I was before." And "I am never going to rise to my full potential.... As much as I try, my dreams are not coming true."
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You can look at the wonderful pictures posted on Facebook or Instagram by your friends and others, and see they are having great times, but you aren't. Remember, these are just snapshots of a moment in their lives. They don't tell the REAL story of what is going on in a person's life behind the scenes. It could be that one happy photo that makes you envious is the best time they have had in years.
Still your fears can set in comparing yourself to others. You can find yourself afraid thinking you can't reach your own goals.
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Maybe you get frightening feelings about your finances, health or relationships triggered by what you see on the Web or television. Advertisers love to push those fear buttons to make you buy products. Fear is a basic marketing ploy.
Fears if they are not checked, can take over your life.
However, you don't have to be run by fears or suffer.
Yes ma'am unchecked fears can and will take one's life over leading them down paths of all kinds of destruction such as drugs, alcohol, debt, gambling, promiscuity, etc,... It's best to face actual or potential fears to find out if they have any validity.