Failure, and the risk of failure, can be devastating to some people while others are able to take their failures in stride, learn from them, and move on. This article looks at how the fear of failure can hold you back from your true potential and what it takes to overcome it once and for all.

Challenges may happen, but suffering is optional. An outlook that looks for evidence that life IS good begins to find it.

embracing spontaneity. Enjoy those moments

Have you ever stood at the precipice of deep choice? knowing that either choice you make will bring radically different results?

Persistence is omnipotent, greater even than genius.

Do you want a burdened, obstructed, and hampered life? Is there anything enlightened about living in a cramped mindset that seeks to hold you in limitation, fear and obligation? Just who decided that to be miserable is somehow holy and we must suffer along? Sounds like a bunch of bunk to me.

Haven't you had enough of struggle? Wouldn't you love to feel more supported and have things and opportunities flowing to you more easily? Read more about how the author changed her life from one of constant struggle to support.

It is important to stretch ourselves--to dare to discover who we are in the most positive terms and then to let our very essence reflect our individual 'beauty'.

develop a gratitude list.

The mantra made famous in the baseball movie "Field of Dreams" inspired millions. "If you build it, they will come." Entrepreneurs should heed the promise, regardless of what some people may think.