Sorry blog readers for the delay in this post. I do a little bit of acting in my spare time (hence being virtually non-existent lately). This week, I found myself working on a shoot that involved a lot of live animals; primarily speaking, they were snakes and mice.  Most women would gawk at that kind of thing. Snakes and mice give a lot of people that creepy, crawly feeling, but not me. I laugh in the face of such danger—Ha! It just so happens that the lead actress on this shoot had a minor issue where the animals were concerned.  She was ever so slightly frightened by the little guys, but the scene called for her to pick them up by their tails. I watched her freak out while preparing to shoot the scene. She had to talk herself up just to make it through the tenuous moments before “action” was called. She was genuinely scared, but once those cameras started rolling she became composed and self-assured. She was acting, in the best sense of the word. She had to have told herself that she was capable, a strong, and bigger than that little mouse that was causing her so much anguish. Granted when the cameras stopped rolling again, she had another freak-out. Yet in those moments of film, she will come across as a powerful woman.

Today’s Task: Grab the mouse by the tail. It’s easy to opt out of doing something because you are afraid, but it takes courage and gusto to do it anyway. Whether that mouse is moving to a new place, or moving on from an old relationship, grab on anyway. After enough time you’ll find that you are much bigger than your fear and then you won’t be so afraid anymore.