I belong to a writer's group and became friends with several of the members. One of them is a fellow self-publisher, on motivation and self-help, and I got a call from him this morning. His wife is a smoker and wants to quit but she's terrified. Of what? Of the power that will give her. Erik said it seems a legitimate fear. Because she hasn't been able to quit before she's pretty much settled into a kind of miasma of fear of ineptitude (his words, not mine). In other words, she's afraid of her own power. If she succeeds in her quit, she can, or should be able to, accomplish anything, and that scares the hell out of her. I thought this might be interesting to talk about. Is she and/or Erik overthinking her fear? For myself, I would welcome that great sense of accomplishment. Does anyone else fear that sense of power and, if so, how do you work around it? I mentioned Erik's work because he's tried to motivate her without much luck. Anyone have feed-back on this??