“Fear can be our enemy or our friend.”
Regardless of who we are, where we are from, or what we have accomplished or experienced in life we are each afraid of something. What we are afraid of may be similar or different from each other. However, we all have our own fears in both our personal and professional lives.
Some of these fears have the potential to hold us back and keep us from becoming the person we dream of being.
“Fear is our enemy when it keeps us from following our dreams or doing the things we want to in life.”
Instead of letting our fears keep us hostage we need to embrace them in order to learn from them and grow. We need to recognize what we are afraid of, try to identify the best way to overcome it, and then work to do so.
If we leverage our fears in order to help us learn, grow, and improve we can do some pretty amazing things.
“Fear becomes our friend when it motivates us to appropriately prepare so we can overcome the challenges we are faced with in life.”
We must also remember that without fear we cannot have courage. For us to live the lives that we dream of we must do so with courage and not let our fears keep us from doing the things we really want to.
About willieryder
Willie Ryder spent 10 years in the United States Marine Corps working in Communications and Information Technology in multiple different Leadership roles. He then went to work at Microsoft where he has been for almost 15 years now working in Engineer, Manager, and Leadership roles.
Willie is very passionate about his personal and professional development and also helping others grow. Especially our next generation. He was an active member in Toastmasters for 8 years where he worked on his Communications and Leadership skills and has mentored many others in these areas.
Willie has been a year round youth basketball coach at www.YesICanBasketball.com for 13 years where he has had the wonderful opportunity to work with and coach 100's of kids of all ages. The past 6 years he has regularly volunteered to speak about character traits and mentor kids at the nearby public elementary schools. Over the last 3 years he has been a volunteer mentor with the nonprofit organization www.RightMovesForYouth.org where he tries to make a positive impact on some of the local High School students.
Willie has been married to Jennifer for 24 years. They have 2 daughters, a son, and a Siberian Husky. In his free time he enjoys spending time with family, attending and serving at Elevation Church, Coaching youth basketball, Writing, Public Speaking, Reading, and Running.
Willie Ryder - A Dreamer on a Journey 
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