Overcoming the Terrifying: An Ongoing Project

Over coming the Terrifying:

Public humiliation, ridicule, loneliness and loss loom large in my dictionary of terrifying occurrences. I fear being faced with situations that could lead to any one of those outcomes. I see these fears as a crutch. They inevitably hold me back. So, over the course of the next 3 months I am going to do something large or small that terrifies me. These tasks range from the absurd to the more dark, serious aspects of terror. I am compiling a list of things which I hope to tackle, head on, each day. I have a list of things that terrify me already created, but I am forever seeking more. You can help me. What terrifies you? Let me know and perhaps I will conquer your fear too! Everytime that I set out to conquer a fear that is not mine I will indicate who's fear it is. If I have a fear that someone else has identified as her own, then I must do two tasks in correspondence with this fear.

This project begins today January 18, 2010. I imagine it will end on April 29, 2010. Will I be a better person afterwards? Can fear be conquered by instances of fearlessness? I shall certainly find out. Or in any case, be closer to finding out. I will document each day's findings on this blog. Each day will have a new challenge. Each challenge will be detailed under task and then the explanation of my adventures dealing with this challenge will follow. I will close up each entry with a brief analysis of my results.

Addendum to the Project: The Lee Kehoe Weekly Challenge aka TLKwC

Lee Kehoe will be giving me a weekly challenge to accomplish during the week. I am really not looking forward to these challenges. I don't know if I am far enough along in my training yet to conquer these feats of daring. After I explained this particular project to my dear friend Lee, she decided to become involved in ways I probably would have preferred she didn't. These challenges promise to be incredibly rigorous and in fact are designed to push me fully out of my comfort zone.

"My goal with this (the smile on her face is far too large to express in words here)is to make you as uncomfortable as possible so that you will realize and appreciate the goodness in all human beings; especially of the male variety."-Lee Kehoe.