Do one thing a day that scares you
How external conditions push you to overcome your scariest fear/s and how what you fear leads you the way to a better you-habit.
One of my most thrilling nightmare fear is sleeping alone.
I am the evident walking proof I am still afraid of the dark.
Since I was a toddler, I needed to sleep with someone comforting me from improbable monsters coming by night to knidap me.
Growing up, I dealt with this fear of mine with just one trick: having a light besides me all-the-time-opened.
I married, I moved to another town. I became mother.
Sometimes, my man has to get on work travels, spending one or two nights outside.
The first time I entered this world, I was petrified. But, as my child was two years old I had to be brave and bold for the two of us.
My pesonal trick? when she fall asleep, obviously with me, I simply switched on each possible light in the house. Soon, It was Christmas. Instantly, there was a little disco within my living room. Red flag for any night prowler. I was protected by a sound and a light explosion.
Tv set on. Affordable volume. Double locked door. Here I was fighting against Morpheus, listening my child snoring. I usually fall asleep because of tiredness. My best friend against my best enemy was my tiredness.
The day after, I seemed I engaged a battle towards ghosts, but this can be of of any interest to a 2 years old child, so I have to play I have to get out, all the stuff a mommy has to do.
You can imagine, my reaction when my man came back: as a god of a peaceuful sleep.
“Sometimes” became “often”. I found out myself alone at home by night.
Step by step I was facing my most awful fear and I was defeating it.
Now, that several years have passed by, when my man is out, I am another woman. I just go to bed quietly with my daughter. I leave switched on my TV and I fell aslep. It a huge pogress for me.
What I want to say is that I change my mind and I get the point of overcoming my fear of dark and of sleeping alone.
So, eventually, when external conditions push you to face your fear you have to abandon your comfort zone giving you the chance to discover another you.
And yes, to perform into a new-you-habit you have to do one thing that scares you a day.
