Alarm Clock — 11:34 pm: Fear

Alessandro Tinchini
Sep 5, 2018 · 2 min read

Tales of ordinary awakening.

“man holding his hair against sunlight” by Jeremy Perkins on Unsplash

The only thing you have to fear is fear itself.

I don’t know who told this, but that’s plain true. When we stop doing something because of fear, it’s not because we fear what we have to do; we fear the perspective of not accomplishing what we set out to do, the way we want to. Or right the contrary: we know we can bring our work to completion, so we always leave it for a later date, allowing our mind to generate laziness, and then inability to go on. Inability spawns anxiety, which turns into fear.

We have all we need to complete the task, but there’s an inner force that works against us.

I’ve been drafting my current work-in-progress novel Two Hills for almost a year now, I know what I have to write and where the story goes, since I outlined it extensively, but the fear of succeeding in finishing it stopped me several times. There’s an inner voice that says: “You know you’re gonna make it, so why the haste?”

If you’re familiar with that voice too, silence it right away, for procrastination leads to atrophy when creativity is involved and atrophy generates fear in the long run. If you know you can do it, do it right away. As writers, creatives and entrepreneurs, we cannot allow ourselves fall into atrophy: we always have to take action. We always have to be on the run.

*Alarm Clock is a 30-part series of tales of self-awareness and awakening. Sometimes we are blind to our inner power and we need a third eye to watch over us. And a voice to bring us back to reality, before it’s too late.

Alessandro Tinchini

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Author. Scholar in Dance-therapy. I published “Day-job writers”, a guide for writers busy with demanding day-jobs.

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