{"id":9498,"date":"2020-03-03T00:51:27","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T06:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/?p=9498"},"modified":"2020-03-03T00:51:42","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T06:51:42","slug":"if-you-want-to-conquer-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/if-you-want-to-conquer-fear\/","title":{"rendered":"If You Want To Conquer Fear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080; font-weight: bold;\">\u201cIf you want to conquer fear, don\u2019t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.\u201d<\/span> \u2013 Dale Carnegie<\/p>\n\n\n<p>The last few days as I\u2019ve watched the news stories and read\nthe articles about the spread of the Coronavirus it has been difficult not to\nlet feelings of fear start creeping in\u2026fear for how it would affect your aging\nparents, fear for your young grandbabies, fear for friends with weakened immune\nsystems, fear for everyone really as even if the disease doesn\u2019t kill people it\nis having a massive effect on the economy, on jobs, on companies, etc.&nbsp; As I lay in bed last night I couldn\u2019t get to\nsleep with all the worries about all the things this could affect. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then today, I thought about the opening quote in today\u2019s blog from Dale Carnegie and it reminded me that one way to overcome fear is to get out and get busy doing what you can about it.\u00a0 So I made a list of all the things I can do to make sure I\u2019m prepared and my family is prepared in the event the virus affects us. Then I began ordering some supplies we will need in the event quarantine happens\u2026things like diapers for grandbabies, laundry detergent, medications, trash bags, disposable gloves, paper towels, toilet paper, cleaning supplies, and food\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The more things I was able to order from the list the more calm I began to feel because I was actually doing something about it rather than just fearing it.  Fearing it won&#8217;t change it&#8230;not even a little bit&#8230;. but preparing for it will&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do what you can to prepare &#8211; its the best way to ward off fear.  And on that front, if anyone has additional ideas of items I ought to be purchasing to make sure I&#8217;m prepared please share them on the blog! I don&#8217;t want to forget anything I should have gotten.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>~Amy Rees Anderson (author of the book \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/What-Awesome-Looks-Like-Business\/dp\/1946633763\">What Awesome Looks Like: How To Excel in Business &amp; Life<\/a>\u201d ) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf you want to conquer fear, don\u2019t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.\u201d \u2013 Dale Carnegie The last few days as I\u2019ve watched the news stories and read the articles about the spread of the Coronavirus it has been difficult not to let feelings of fear start creeping in\u2026fear for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[395,8129,23071,23070,22998,5112,10426,23061,23067,13610,23065,23068,8113,16959,23062,23069,23060,23064,23066,23063,173],"class_list":["post-9498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-amy-rees-anderson","tag-be-prepared","tag-be-proactive","tag-cannery","tag-coronavirus","tag-dale-carnegie","tag-do-something-about-it","tag-dont-sit-home-and-think-about-it-get-busy","tag-effect-on-economy","tag-emergency-preparedness","tag-fear-and-worry","tag-fear-for-loved-ones","tag-food-storage","tag-get-busy","tag-go-out-and-get-busy","tag-if-ye-are-prepared-ye-shall-not-fear","tag-if-you-want-to-conquer-fear","tag-pandemic","tag-prepper","tag-spread-of-the-coronavirus","tag-worry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9498"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12321,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9498\/revisions\/12321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}