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Sometimes it helps to get a little dose of encouragement—along with a good cup of coffee!—to start the day. Today we discuss "scared".

Hopefully, the message below will help you get off to a good start for the week. Please feel free to forward the newsletter along to others who you think would benefit from the content.

Scared

Remember when you were a wee little tike and the lights went out, the noises in your bedroom become loud, and you were sure that there was something lurking in the room that was going to get you? Then you got a little older and realized that there was nothing to be scared about in the night.

Now that you’re an adult you’re SO much smarter and scared about what people think, what’s going on with your kids, and how you’re going to pay the bills. What’s the chance that ten, twenty, thirty years from now you will look back upon what is currently scaring you and conclude it is not scary at all?

Bronnie Ware is a caregiver that has spent a lot of time with folks that were on their deathbed. She pulled together her list of “The Top Five Regrets of the Dying".

1. I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
2. I wish I hadn’t worked so hard.
3. I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings.
4. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.
5. I wish I had let myself be happier.

I think I can sum up the list even more succinctly:

• I wish I hadn’t allowed myself to be scared.

My challenge for you today is:

• Is it worth your time to go through life being scared?

Thanks for sharing a bit of your time with me and have a great week!

Curt

About MMM: Each week I publish “Monday Morning Motivation” in the hopes that one person will find a bit of inspiration and that inspiration will have a positive impact on their life. My motivation comes from experiences, reading, sermons, and discussions.

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