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Fear Is Your Compass When You’re Lost, Stuck and Directionless
How we get lost and stuck, how we find direction by using fear as a compass, and what happens when we do.
I was in serious trouble.
The life or death kind. No, it was worse than that. I was in the battle for your soul, good and evil, cosmic-fucking-scale kind of trouble. And I had no idea how to get out.
I was lost, stuck, utterly fucked, up shit’s creek without a paddle, missing my map, and forgot to leave a note on the kitchen table about where I was going like my mom always told me to, figuratively speaking.
I’m talking capital S, capital T — Serious Trouble.
This is the story of how I navigated my way out of Serious Trouble by using fear as a compass.
How You Get Into Serious Trouble
I don’t wanna bore you with my story. You probably don’t care about the details. What you really care about is what I learned and how that can help you.
But now you’re probably wondering what kind of serious trouble I was in, so I’ll give you the goods:
Alcoholic, $150,000 in debt, $0 income, wife left and took the dog, car broke down, put on 50 pounds, lost all…
