This past weekend my family and I where on a extended weekend vacation with other family. We had the awesome opportunity to go to the USA Olympic White Water Kayaking and Rafting Training Center outside of Charlotte North Carolina. I highly recommend this place, it was awesome. Many different types of adventure outdoor activities to the extreme. Because of this I got to witness members of my family including myself concur some big fears. My son had to deal with the fear of class 4 and 5 rapids. The fear exuding from his body and facial expressions was very really and very visible. The fear of being strapped in a harness 120 in the air on a pulley and cable was very real for myself. You see I don't like those kinds of heights. The strange thing was that the fear was really only a perceived notion that something bad was going to happen to both of us. Even though I had seen at least 100 people go on the zip line successfully and for my son the perceived notion that he would fall out and drown, even though we watched numerous kayakers and rafters go through the rapids successfully. obviously none of the horrendous events never happened and we had the time of our lives day and totally look forward to going back again. The point I am making is that we can let fear dominate our lives. It stops us from trying new things. It stops us from getting started on something for fear of failure. It stops us from getting started at a gym or some form of physical fitness due to fear of being judged, fear of the work and how hard it may be. Fear of coming out of our comfortable rut, even though we hate that rut and how it makes us feel mentally, emotionally and physically. The crazy thing fear is an emotion based on something that has yet to even happen. It is a thought about what could happen. How do we really know what is going to happen. I know that I can not see into the future to predict this feeling, but yet we do it all the time. We forget so easily the last time we faced our fears and realized that there was no need for this fear and all it came down to was just doing the hard part and that was, taking the first step.