Hey Everyone it’s Tenaya! Welcome to Inspired By Tenaya and my very First Podcast! I’m very excited to be here giving inspiration to everyone including myself. So my inspiration for today is about the two meanings of FEAR. I chose this topic today because I had been putting off for months doing this podcasting and a few other things that I really, really wanted to do because of FEAR. Well I decided NO MORE, was I going to make up excuses and give any more reasons as to why I couldn’t get this podcasting together. The more excuses I had the more I became lazy in doing the research and putting it off until, it was the furthest thing from my mind. I am an entrepreneur and I watch so many people get their business going and have so much energy. I kept telling myself I want to be like them, I want that energy that will power to just do it. The boldness and courage to work hard and go after what I want. Once again I let that four letter word FEAR stop me. I was damaging myself, my image and who I wanted to be. I was slowing down the process and progress I could have been using to make me a winner, to forget everything and run.

Here we are at the TWO main reasons of FEAR 1: Forget Everything And Run OR 2: Face Everything and Rise. Yes, the choice is ALWAYS yours.

You can no longer allow FEAR to disrupt your life. When you do that, it starts to take over little by little. You want to branch out and start going to the gym instead of working out at home. The fear is that you don’t want anyone to see you at the gym, you don’t want to go alone, you don’t want to pay the membership fee, you don’t really have time for the gym; no workout clothes, you can’t commit to gym and the list will go on. All of that will fall under fear because the moment you gave the first excuse of why you couldn’t go is when unconsciously all the other excuses slipped in and you genuinely felt that they where all legitimate reasons without ever giving any other thought to it.

Fear also comes in the form of not understanding something. For instance you’ve been given a task to do but because you don’t really understand it, and your not sure about the purpose behind it, you have a fear of doing it. How many times has this held true when it comes to something that God has told us to do? Then we get into disobedience because we refuse to do something just because we don’t understand why he wants us to do it. Thats a whole different podcast, I will get in too that another time. It’s time that you take charge of your life and STOP letting FEAR rule it! Talk to that situation in your life that you have given over to fear and SAY ” Hello Fear, before you sit down there’s something I need to explain, since your here. Things have changed, all my hopes and dreams I allowed you take I want them back. The seat I gave you, I gave it away, your NO LONGER welcome in my space, in my life, in my home , on my job, near my family, or anything I TOUCH. You seem to have a hard time letting go but I just need you to know, I’m done; I’m over you, you can GO! I can’t allow you to shift, change or mold my atmosphere anymore. Our divorce is final!”  (yes, some of those words where from Kirk Franklin)

Now its time to Face Everything and Rise. Rise and Shine! Be the person that God wants you to be and that you know you can be. Forget about what people are gonna say about you. People are going to talk regardless. When your doing good they gone talk about you. When your doing bad they gone talk about you. Who cares! None of those people are going to pay your bills, keep food in your house, make sure your car has gas, pay a bill collector, feed your children, keep your lights on, nothing. Only God will stay faithful to you know matter what.  I’m not going to say that any of this is going to be easy but I will say this start by giving yourself weekly goals that are manageable, reachable and achievable.  if you set a a goal that can be achieved by the end of the week, think about how much you can accomplish within a month. For some setting a short term goal that three months aways is still too much. So set some weekly goals or even every 2weeks is still good. I had decided on Friday that I had the weekend to figure this podcast thing out, its Sunday and I did it. I did it without anyones help, I did the research I picked a publishers, I set my stuff up and look where my determination got me. I didn’t allow fear to get me again. This isn’t the end of the road for me, it doesn’t just stop here. I don’t believe in the sky being the limit because space is beyond that sky. Heaven is the limit is how I see it.

Listen I want to hear from you. Send me your comments your feedback, your inspirational topics you want me to discuss. Maybe you tired giving inspiration to someone and their just not receiving it from you. I can help. Thank you for turning in I hope to hear from you all and tune in next time for your daily inspiration here with InspiredByTenaya. Be Blessed.