By Leo Babauta
‘Fear makes us feel our humanity.’ ~Benjamin Disraeli
The moment my first daughter Chloe was born, I was filled with an overpowering joy — she was a living miracle! I was also filled with soul-trembling fear — here was a fragile new life, entrusted into my incompetent hands.
It was overwhelming, this mixture of two powerful emotions.
I call it Joyfear.
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I discovered this word in an exercise on Sunday at the World Domination Summit during a talk by the amazing Andrea Scher and Jen Lemen of Mondo Beyondo (check out their site, it’s awesome). During the exercise I came up with the word and wrote it on my arm.
Joyfear.
It turns out that the birth of each of my... More...
