# Feeling the Fear

**Published by:** [jer979](https://paragraph.com/@jer979-2/)
**Published on:** 2022-09-15
**URL:** https://paragraph.com/@jer979-2/feeling-the-fear

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I was sitting outside meditating the other morning. Eyes were closed. Breeze was light. Birds were chirping. I was repeating my mantra and, of course, as is the Way, my mind began to wander. I started to drift to my role as CMO at Radix. It’s a huge opportunity and I’m excited about it. It’s also a big responsibility. I mean, we have to decentralize the global economy, right? And then I felt it. A sensation in my right breast area. It was fear. Fear of failure. Fear of an inability to perform. But, instead of letting it overwhelm me, I simply did what one is supposed to do when practicing mindfulness. I acknowledged it and tried to do so without judgment. Then, I remembered the saying that courage isn’t the absence of fear, it’s the willingness to persevere in spite of fear. We all feel it at times (or at least I think we do). It’s what we do with it that matters.

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