What happens when you put yourself into the mindset that is guided by faith and not ruled by fear?

In the book "Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway," Susan Jeffers has a chapter called "Pollyanna Rides Again," and it's about the power of positive thinking. She says that "it is reported that over 90% of what we worry about never happens. That means that our negative worries have about a 10% chance of being correct."

So that means that if we have a negative view of taking chances and are always focusing on being "realistic," then we won't take a chance. But there was only a 10% chance that the negative "realistic" view was even possible. it was more probable that we weren't being realistic at all.

In Jack Canfield's book "The Success Principles," he says, "Roadblocks are simply obstacles that the world throws at you. They are simple circumstances you need to deal with in order to move forward."

So that would be a "faith not fear" way of thinking. It's just a roadblock.

We all have roadblocks in our lives. There is always a new challenge. I have found in the business world that rather than talking about issues, people refer to opportunities. It sounds better. To say, what is the opportunity here, sounds much more promising than what's the issue, what's wrong, what is the problem.

So you might think about a time that you faced a roadblock and turned it into an opportunity. Maybe there was a difficult circumstance, maybe you moved, started a new career, launched a business, or learned to ride a bicycle or to swim. There were roadblocks, but you didn't see them.

You didn't see them because you were guided by faith and not ruled by fear.
 
You might want to write a story about that.