Sometimes, the biggest thing that stops us from moving forward is the fear. That's something that I've gone through over the last couple of months.

Yes, it's true, fear kept me stuck in the end of 2008. Even with the amount of work that I've done on myself and the things that I know, I was still struck down by fear. I knew that things needed to change and yet I was so afraid of the change. I kept trying to move forward with what I thought was needed yet kept hitting brick walls again and again.

I'm sharing it with you to show you that no matter who you are and what stage of self growth you're in, you can still be struck down by fear.

The question is, what do we do about it?

The first thing that I did was acknowledged the fact that I was feeling the effects of fear. You can't work with what you don't know. If you can't identify what you're going through, it makes it extremely difficult to formulate a plan to overcome it.

Once I had acknowledge that I was feeling fear, I took just 15 minutes out of my day to become really clear on what was going on. You see, fear is just a mask for what's really going on inside of us.

I took a piece of paper and wrote down a list of exactly what it was that I was afraid of. I kept writing until I had gotten to the point where the tears just flowed about and it was at that point that I had something to work with.

If you're feeling the effects of fear and it's stopping you from moving forward, why not try this technique. It only takes around 15 minutes yet gives you such clarity about what's really going on in your world.