#nossonwrites

What kind of new things am I starting?

Well, for starters, I have gone and acquired a Minecraft server located on shockbyte.com, which they are phenomenal at providing excellent support and great reliability. For only $22.50 a month, I too can have a nice Minecraft server running 9 GB of memory. Very affordable and highly convenient. The goal for this server is for it to be a place of magic, adventure, and greatness. Check out the blog associated with it here to follow the progress made on it.

The next bit that I am starting, or in this case continuing from December of 2017, is the growth and development of this community here at prescryptionlol.com. Since a week ago, I have moved over everything from the server hosted at digitalocean.com where I was paying about $40 something a month to upkeep it, to this wonderful blog that is free to use and great to build my empire off of. Don’t get me wrong, DigitalOcean was great and reliable, it’s just I can’t really see myself paying $$$ for something I am getting nothing in-return from. Along with the change over to Tumblr, I am interested in continuing my developing journey as a Twitch Affiliate over here. The goal for streaming is to

Be consistent with a set schedule and time per week

Be positive and don’t worry about metrics like number of viewers

And meet more streamers like me as well as support the plethora of already met streamers in 2017.

With these three goals, I am sure some value can be acquired. :)

The last bit, and not least, that I am working to develop into is my current academic experience. What I want here is to stay focused and do what I must do to succeed.

Hmm. Anything else for this bit? Not that I can think of. As always, please stay positive!

My Biggest Fear

As a young kid, I had three major fears: mannequins, dinosaurs, and that I would be brutally murdered by my stuffed animals while I slept. Needless to say, I suffered from insomnia, and spent elementary school with bags under my eyes big enough to make a basset hound jealous. My fears only got worse as I thought about a teddy bear uprising happening and it only paralyzed me more. When I think of the fears I now have, these fears seems bizarre and utterly hilarious. Although that mannequin thing? That will never go away. Mannequins are terrifying.

The way I managed my mannequin fear was through the use of playing indie video games that were composed of doing actions with mannequins. Eventually by doing this, I learned to overcome this fear. Nowadays, my fear of mannequins is more of a comical thing; I use it to make people laugh. The fear of mannequins started when I was just out of elementary school; I remember it was because of a dream I had resulting in a puppet or something like a puppet chasing me. Although to my younger self this fear was more of ridiculous one

What kind of fears held power over you in the past?

Think about all the fearful things you experienced growing up or simply in your past. What made you fearful of them? Was it a stuffed animal that you couldn't bare to look at or was it something more in-tangible such as the thought of looking over a high edge and feeling the urge to jump off of it? What ever it was, just know that these are only fears and aren't real unless carried out or someone they become real. A big fear of many people is the fear of talking in front of an audience. This is okay to have and let me tell you this gets easier as you talk more and more in front of people. The best notion I can give you here is: (1) breath, (2) prepare your speech ahead of time, and (3) don't do the whole 'imagine folks in their underwear'. Trust me; this makes it worse.

Fears that hold powers over you can often lead to, or become a, root cause in depression. Fear sometimes will trigger symptoms that cause anxiety, depression, nausea, or increased heart-rate. These fears are merely false beliefs and often end up telling you that you are worthless; and if you believe it in a fear, you start believing it in the real world.

Use your fears to motivate you

If you are afraid of, oh say clowns or drowning in water, don't let that keep you from jumping in a pool or shaking the hand of a friendly clown (yes, they do exist). Interacting with the exact thing that you are afraid of leaves no room for the thing you are afraid of to strike fear in you. By interacting with your fears you weaken them and don't give them power over you which in term helps you have a better life and one without depression that may be caused by a fear.

Conclusion

We talked today about combating your fears by confronting them and interacting with them. This will lead you to a better life without depression.

This posts serves a purpose in my Daily Writing Exercise today and I would like to leave you with a question to ponder on: what is your fear and how do you use it to make your life better? If you don't, how could you?

Stay Positive