As a society, it is time for us to come out of denial on a critical issue.  In America we have been afraid––afraid to shop, afraid to travel, afraid to invest, afraid of losing or never finding a job, afraid of breathing the air, afraid of drinking the water, afraid of any tiny change in our routine because it might open the door to a tornado of change that will decimate our lives completely.

No wonder we have been afraid to change something as far reaching as our health care system. We’ve been afraid to take our vacation time, afraid our children will be kidnapped at the mall, afraid of crack houses in our neighborhood, and on and on and on.

In Bold Moves language, we’ve been a society in the grips of Inner Critters, those pesky internal voices that have us justifying, every moment, why we dare not make any move at all. So, we the people haven’t had access to the kind of drive, daring and conviction that had our forebears boldly building the U S of A.

It’s time for a change! In the coming weeks in this blog, we will take the covers off fear in America. We’ll examine why it has been so difficult to see it for what it is. We’ll move past the notion of living life defined by alarm levels red, orange and yellow. We’ll explore soothing blue, grateful green, and vibrant violet, colors that aren’t even represented on the scale we’ve been using to measure our mood as a nation.  Stay tuned as we examine the full rainbow of possibilities.