Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.

When you meet people, show real appreciation, then genuine curiosity.

If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you.

When fear makes your choices for you, no security measures on earth will keep the things you dread from finding you. But if you can avoid avoidance - if you can choose to embrace experiences out of passion, enthusiasm, and a readiness to feel whatever arises - then nothing, nothing in all this dangerous world, can keep you from being safe.

The process of spotting fear and refusing to obey it is the source of all true empowerment.

For cool things to happen, you have to get out of your comfort zone.