Good morning Mike and Happy Birthday week :)  I had buyers a few months back and they constantly said... "Oh this is so scary, or we're so afraid." I kept reassuring them I would be taking care of them and now they say they feel silly for being so afraid.  It's part of the process sometimes more for some than others.

Mike,

Great post. Fear can be a motivator. I think it's important to identify the source of our fear first so we have control not the fear controlling us.

There is a quote by Eleanor Roosevelt that over the years I have taped inside notebooks, onto refrigerators, and tried to refer to in tough times - especially the last sentence:

“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”

Fear is a hugely powerful motivator to action.   I wonder sometimes if the return to hard assets/real estate investment might be driven by a preservation of capital fear?

Fear is often the result of not having the facts or just being uneducated about something.  I work hard with buyers and sellers alike to remove their fears by replacing them with good reasons not to be afraid.

Fear is a perfect motivator! We often want to concur our fears and when this is done we feel accomplished! Great insiration post and I have suggested it.

I think there is a lot of fear - partly stirred up by the media and their concentration on stories of doom and gloom and tragedy.  There also seems to be a sense that some issues are so complex and difficult, that no one really has the answers (or at least can agree on those answers).  But where that fear leaches into the home buying process, it is still usually possible to gather the necessary data to get past fear and into the excitement of buying a home, confident that it is an educated & good choice. 

Mike, I really like this post...suggested. Fear can generate a lot of emotions and in todays world it would be easy to live in fear. Being alert of your surroundings and having a proper way to protect yourself is important. Now, fear of starting a business...that's normal :)

Of course as FDR said:  "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

Ecellent point, Mike. Fear can be a great motivator, and it really cleans out the cobwebs in the nervous system, but only if you know how to deal with it productively. It's a frequent component of risk, and risk, properly handled, is how we make real progress.

Yes, there are several types of fears.  It's up to us how we're going to turn it positively.  Turning our fear to motivation is a great way to do it.  Regardless of whatever fear it is, we know that God is always with us, will never leave us nor forsake us.