Most people, once they graduate from the School of Hard Knocks, automatically enroll in the University of Adversity.
Keep your goals away from the trolls.
What's more important-your goal, or others' opinions of your goal?
Running from fear only strengthens fear-you are demonstrating that fear has power over you. Fear must be faced and gone through.
Choosing what you want to do, and when to do it, is an act of creation.
Write 10 times: 'Fear is my friend. Fear is the energy to do my best in a new situation.' You don't have to believe it; just write it.